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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: slide - a command to make you root
Message-ID: <7915@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 18:20:27 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.7915
Posted: Thu Nov 19 18:20:27 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 19:33:08 EST
References: <223@althea.UUCP> <2406@pbhyf.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: handy, time-saving

I was glad to see slide posted. Any reasonable user does as little as
possible in root, and therefore may have to change fairly frequently. I
have a routine which lets me execute one command as anyone from my own
login, and it's a great timesaver.

For all of those who didn't like it, there were caveats with the
program, you don't have to use it, and why are you complaining about. I
hope to see more people posting, and some of the replys were less than
totally polite. If someone felt that additional warning was needed (and
that might be), it could have been done without making the poster feel
that the submission was unwanted.

My solution to the problem is to have a second login window and keep it
logged in as root *with a very different prompt*, not just "#", but
"Root>" and a bell.  Annoying as hell, but a safty feature.  I know some
people have had trouble with running multiple login windows, please
don't let's start that again. 

-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me