If I wasn't root a month ago, doing dd if=image of=/dev/hda wouldn't of 
been so disastrous.


At 07:27 AM 6/23/00 -0400, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
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>If I might be so bold as to change the angle of this discussion...
>
>
>I;m hearing that root access is seldom if ever needed.  I'm hearing talk of
>production environments, engineering environments, development envronments
>etc.  Let's talk about "my machine".  Not my workstation at work, not a 
>machine
>somebody else owns, not my wife's machine not nothing.  MY PC running LINUX.
>Should I use root login or sudo ?  Simple question.
>
>Hard question.  Is the answer to the simple question (whatever the answer is)
>what it is because it's also the answer for my employer owned workstation,
>production machine etc.  or the other way around ?  Should I use good practice
>at home because it's good practice, or should I use good practice only at work
>because it only matters there ?
>
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