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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Vincent Fox wrote:

> 
> We learn fastest from our screwups.
> 
> I wiped out the home drive on a server I was n00b admin for
> within my first week of root access. Had to stay up all night
> recovering from tape, but I sure did learn about being careful
> from the root shell!
> 
> > Someone (Dow?) wrote that the safest way for beginners is to
> > su to root and mount/copy from there.  I would posit that
> > beginners should NOT be given the suggestion to act as root 
> > unnecessarily as a mistyped command can do enormous damage.
> 
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