Assigning ROOT a password. WAS: Re: Graphical Display Managers

[Michael Leone]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Michael Leone wrote:
>
>  > You just have to be careful, that's all. Of course, even if you don't
>  > assign root a password, you have to be careful you don't do something
>  > like "sudo rm -rf /*.*", too. :-) That'll mess up your whole day ...
>
>  There are less obvious ways:
>
>  $ cd /etc
>  ...
>  $ sudo rm -r /home/derek/something *
>
>  Whatever "something" was, it was a directory I'd accidentally created under
>  sudo, so I needed to use sudo to delete it.  Unfortunately there was
>  supposed to be a / between "something" and "*".  Oops.  Bye-bye /etc/*!

D'OH!

A very good point, that hadn't occurred to me. makes you think that
having a prompt whenever you do a "rm -rf", as an extra measure, might
not be a bad idea.


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