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You have conveniently left out the text that I responded to:

> The challenge will have no "tie." I will either restore the system back to
> clean state quickly (and outline how I did so), or I lose the competition.

Which implies that your criterion for "safety" simply involves whether you can 
"restore the system".  This is not what most people mean by "safety".  

And, again, if you ARE running from a live CD type of thing, then all of this 
has been quite the waste of time, since our reference points are not the same.  
If this is the case, I think you have been disingenuous rather than clever; one 
might as easily modify all references to "root" to, say, "superadmin", then 
create a regular user account named "root" and claim that running as root was 
safe, creating as much controversy with as little merit.  Now, sure, this comes 
down to 'assumptions'; but all of human interaction through language involves 
certain assumptions, and if your argument balances on such a nicety as this 
then you're more of a troll than I had imagined.

--George

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George Carless ... kafka at antichri.st
Words are just dust in deserts of sound


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