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On 5/24/05, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> Running root does not kill the box.  The person running as root will.
> 
> I used to run as root.  Then I fubared an AIX RS/6000 because I ran tar
> in the root directory.  Being a normal user would have saved me.  We
> were down for 6 hours because of my mistake.  A UNIX box does not assume
> the user is an idiot like Windows.  There are no confirmation dialogs
> for rm, tar, and others.  A UNIX box will do exactly what you tell it to
> do.  This is why you do not need to be root unless you are doing
> administration to the box.  Linespire allowing root would scare me.  If
> I was the support manager there I would be scared that my calls would
> actually increase.  The whole idea of not running as root is not for
> protection from hackers on the outside but for the protection from the
> users on the inside.
> 
> Why is sudo not good enough?  If you need to run some program as root
> then use sudo.  That is what it was designed for.


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