----LINUX
 
 WC>> Maurice is much more the expert than I
 however if you'd like a novices perspective?
 
 MK> Very good job. I think you covered all the
 main issues. As for the "root" login you pointed
 out the dangers although you might wish to add a
 bit as to why it can be dangerous wrt
 enviromental configuration issues. Often people
 are tempted to take the easy way out and grant
 root priviledges to users when it isn't really
 needed. That is usually when things go awry in a
 BIG way. Permissions are a real handy thing to
 know when running Linux or any other UNIXie
 enviroment for that matter.
 
> Hmm ... permissions can be a bugger, was playing
> with chmod, and chown, jumping around from
> console to console, and didn't realize the
> console I had changed to was not the test
> fixture but the BBS system via telnet, totally
> screwed it, had to rebuild it from the ground
> up, what helped was that I managed to save most
> of the config files ... and that the day before
> having to setup the zonegate here. :-((
> Russell
 
 === Uh oh! Black mark for Linux!
 
 
 === Cheers from Phil, keeping score.
 

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