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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Why does "root" worn everything?
Message-ID: <9926@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 20:19:41 GMT
References: <5209@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <9269@sunybcs.UUCP> <7454@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <7454@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| software that requires privilege (e.g., "passwd").  Operating as
| "root" to do routine administrative actions is a stupid policy.

  I hope you say that somewhat casually. I consider backups to be a
routine administrative action, and don't have the luxury of being able
to do the daily in single user mode. If not root, then how would you do it?
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me