Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:47:40 +0100 | From | Tim Haynes <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for the oom problem |
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:33:04PM -0500, Hacksaw wrote:
> > Anyone working as root is (sorry) an idiot! root's processes are normally > > quite system-relevant and so they should never be killed, if we can avoid > > it. > > The real world intrudes. Root sometimes needs to look at documentation, > which, these days is often available as html. Sometimes it's only as html. > And people in a panic who aren't trained sys-admins aren't going to remember > to log in as someone else.
Why are they logged in as root in the first place? Is there something they can't do over sudo? I definitely remember seeing a document saying `if you find yourself needing to `man foo', do it in another terminal as your non-root self'; it might or might not've been the SAG.
In any case, what happened to `if you use this rope you will hang yourself'? There has to be a point where you abandon catering for all kinds of fool and get on with writing something useful, I think.
> I completely agree that doing general work as root is a bad idea. I do most > root things via sudo. It sure would be nice if all the big dists supplied it > (Hey, RedHat! You listening?) as part of their normal set.
RH have been listening since v7.0.
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