Thoughts about running as root

[Dustin Decker]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> So while it's fairly dangerous for someone with a lot of Unix user
> experience to run Linux as root, for me it's no worse than running DOS as
> ... well, running DOS.

The most significant difference here is DOS is real-mode single user...  
*nix is not.  If you're the only person using your system, feel free to
do "whatever"...  just remember (for the sake of this junior folks who
might be paying attention) that if you hose a multi-user system you're
not the only one to be inconvenienced.

Dustin

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