Re: hi again ;)

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Will Newton wrote:

> ---Reply to mail from root about hi again ;)
>
> It's not a great idea to use your machine as root on an every day basis.
> Use a normal user and use su for admin work.

It's not *necessarily* running as root, he could have aliased the root
email to another account, just to make himself look big and hairy ;)))

Having said that, a lot of the machines we ran at demo day were running as
root (not *my* laptop, I hasten to add!). It scared the crap out of me, I
kept looking round to see if some clever dick had done an rm -rf / on us.
;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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