sane-project-website/old-archive/2000-02/0336.html

125 wiersze
5.5 KiB
HTML

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>sane-devel: Re: xsane as root</TITLE>
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)">
<META NAME="Subject" CONTENT="Re: xsane as root">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
<H1>Re: xsane as root</H1>
<!-- received="Thu Feb 24 16:14:24 2000" -->
<!-- isoreceived="20000225001424" -->
<!-- sent="Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:20:33 +0100" -->
<!-- isosent="20000225002033" -->
<!-- name="Oliver Rauch" -->
<!-- email="oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE" -->
<!-- subject="Re: xsane as root" -->
<!-- id="38B5CAD1.EF796757@wolfsburg.de" -->
<!-- inreplyto="Pine.LNX.4.10.10002241857230.22923-100000@jkazos.campus.vt.edu" -->
<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Oliver Rauch (<A HREF="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE?Subject=Re:%20xsane%20as%20root&In-Reply-To=&lt;38B5CAD1.EF796757@wolfsburg.de&gt;"><EM>oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</EM></A>)<BR>
<STRONG>Date:</STRONG> Thu Feb 24 2000 - 16:20:33 PST
<P>
<!-- next="start" -->
<LI><STRONG>Next message:</STRONG> <A HREF="0337.html">Oliver Rauch: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<UL>
<LI><STRONG>Previous message:</STRONG> <A HREF="0335.html">Bill Wohler: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>In reply to:</STRONG> <A HREF="0334.html">John Anthony Kazos Jr.: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<!-- nextthread="start" -->
<LI><STRONG>Next in thread:</STRONG> <A HREF="0355.html">Jesper Anderson: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Next in thread:</STRONG> <A HREF="0339.html">Andreas Beck: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Next in thread:</STRONG> <A HREF="0338.html">Bruce Burden: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Next in thread:</STRONG> <A HREF="0335.html">Bill Wohler: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Reply:</STRONG> <A HREF="0355.html">Jesper Anderson: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<!-- reply="end" -->
<LI><STRONG>Messages sorted by:</STRONG>
<A HREF="date.html#336">[ date ]</A>
<A HREF="index.html#336">[ thread ]</A>
<A HREF="subject.html#336">[ subject ]</A>
<A HREF="author.html#336">[ author ]</A>
</UL>
<HR NOSHADE><P>
<!-- body="start" -->
<P>
&quot;John Anthony Kazos Jr.&quot; wrote:
<BR>
<P><EM>&gt; Certainly. Because I am the only user of my system (besides my friends logging
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; in to share files or to talk), so there's really no reason to not be root.
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; Everyone who talks to me spouts the old chestnut that you can really screw up
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; your system if you're root, but no one ever tells me how. Sure, I could type
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; 'rm -rf /*' and my system would merrily go to hell, but really, if I'm stupid
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; enough to type that, why am I using Linux? It would be infuriating to have to
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; su every time I wanted to do anything interesting besides using a program.
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt;
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; If you can show me one good case where being the superuser will prevent *any*
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; disaster (major or minor) not due to stupidity, I will cease the practice
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; immediately.
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt;
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; Though I won't hold my breath.
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt;
</EM><BR>
<P>And what happens if there is a new bug in xsane, eg when deleting a fax project
<BR>
and a directory is erased that should not?
<BR>
<P>I think if you run everything as root you do not see the advantages of a unix system.
<BR>
<P>Bye
<BR>
Oliver
<BR>
<P><PRE>
--
Homepage: <A HREF="http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch">http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch</A>
sane-umax: <A HREF="http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-umax.html">http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-umax.html</A>
xsane: <A HREF="http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-xsane.html">http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-xsane.html</A>
E-Mail: mailto:<A HREF="mailto:Oliver.Rauch@Wolfsburg.DE?Subject=Re:%20xsane%20as%20root&In-Reply-To=&lt;38B5CAD1.EF796757@wolfsburg.de&gt;">Oliver.Rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</A>
<P><P><P><P>--
Source code, list archive, and docs: <A HREF="http://www.mostang.com/sane/">http://www.mostang.com/sane/</A>
To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe sane-devel | mail <A HREF="mailto:majordomo@mostang.com?Subject=Re:%20xsane%20as%20root&In-Reply-To=&lt;38B5CAD1.EF796757@wolfsburg.de&gt;">majordomo@mostang.com</A>
</PRE>
<P><!-- body="end" -->
<HR NOSHADE>
<UL>
<!-- next="start" -->
<LI><STRONG>Next message:</STRONG> <A HREF="0337.html">Oliver Rauch: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Previous message:</STRONG> <A HREF="0335.html">Bill Wohler: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>In reply to:</STRONG> <A HREF="0334.html">John Anthony Kazos Jr.: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<!-- nextthread="start" -->
<LI><STRONG>Next in thread:</STRONG> <A HREF="0355.html">Jesper Anderson: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Next in thread:</STRONG> <A HREF="0339.html">Andreas Beck: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Next in thread:</STRONG> <A HREF="0338.html">Bruce Burden: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Next in thread:</STRONG> <A HREF="0335.html">Bill Wohler: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<LI><STRONG>Reply:</STRONG> <A HREF="0355.html">Jesper Anderson: "Re: xsane as root"</A>
<!-- reply="end" -->
<LI><STRONG>Messages sorted by:</STRONG>
<A HREF="date.html#336">[ date ]</A>
<A HREF="index.html#336">[ thread ]</A>
<A HREF="subject.html#336">[ subject ]</A>
<A HREF="author.html#336">[ author ]</A>
</UL>
<!-- trailer="footer" -->
<HR NOSHADE>
<P>
<SMALL>
<EM>
This archive was generated by <A HREF="http://www.hypermail.org/">hypermail 2b29</A>
: <EM>Thu Feb 24 2000 - 16:14:56 PST</EM>
</EM>
</SMALL>
</BODY>
</HTML>