Be A Man, Run As The Root Account

Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by jacobscott on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @03:50PM (#307445)

Sorry, this is silly. You're (almost) always better off running as a regular user and using sudo. In the worst case you can sudo su. Suggesting that linux newbies run as root is poor advice.

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by jcl on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @04:04PM (#307460)

I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be a joke article.

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by Hexstream on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @04:33PM (#307501)

I'm worried some kid will read this and will be "enlightened".

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by jcl on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @04:52PM (#307524)

Probably the same kid who uses ed because they heard that "ed is the standard text editor". :)

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by silentbicycle on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @05:49PM (#307590)

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by jcl on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @05:53PM (#307596)

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by tdavis on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @07:48PM (#307709)

Hahaha!

  Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
  message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
  and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by silentbicycle on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @06:18PM (#307618)

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by neilk on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @06:34PM (#307634)

There was a big ad to click through. Linkbait, I think.

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by Retric on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @04:04PM (#307461)

But if we don't give children access to nukes how will they learn to be wise.

-C

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Re:Be A Man, Run As The Root Account by mlLK on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @06:17PM (#307615)

I gotta play with a city when I was 12. Hell, they gave me nukes, aliens, riots, hurricanes, tornadoes; I used a whole class of disasters.

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