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At some point hitherto, Ken Ambrose hath spake thusly:
> Ben Scott Scribed:
> 
>>   Aliases are not the problem.  The problem is aliasing commands *for
>> someone else*.  If I alias 'ls' to 'rm -rf .', then that is my own business,
>> and presumably I have a reason.  It is things like Unix and Linux distro
>> vendors setting up "default" aliases which gets people into trouble.  I
>> think that is a bad idea, for all the reasons Paul brings up, and wish
>> vendors would not engage in the practice.

I agree with what Ben says here.  And IIRC some of the Unix vendors
are a bit guilty of this too.  Shortcuts are great, but only 1) when
the user is aware they are using a shortcut and 2) when they know what
the shortcut is a shortcut for...
 
> Hmmm.  A point all of you are making is how bad RH is for aliasing "rm -i"
> because it gets you used to it.  Well... they don't.  Except as root.  You
> guys aren't running as root all the time, are you? ;-)  That would be yet
> another bad thing (YABT).

I will point out that, as with virtually all things, It Depends(tm).
For the average user, being root all the time is an extremely bad
idea.  But I'm a system administrator...  the vast majority of what I
do NEEDS to be done as root.  So I am root most of the time...  Of
course I don't log in as root, and I maintain seperate xterms (which
are different colors usually) in different desktops for being root, so
that it's hard to mistake being root for being a regular user...

Blanket statements are always wrong...  ;-)

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