Cool, I'll add it to my signature.
But why not have a Welcome PM to new users telling them basic info about the forum, like the best way to get support on here, and of course not to execute commands with sudo rm -rf * in it?
Cool, I'll add it to my signature.
But why not have a Welcome PM to new users telling them basic info about the forum, like the best way to get support on here, and of course not to execute commands with sudo rm -rf * in it?
granted, but thats not what he said. He said he removed /home
If I did not use sudo, I'd still have a /home directory
$ls -al | grep home
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-04-07 21:44 home
under home:
]drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-04-07 21:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2007-10-12 18:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 ftp nogroup 4096 2007-03-31 13:48 ftp
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-04-01 13:11 juan
drwxr-xr-x 22 patty patty 4096 2007-07-08 16:15 patty
drwxr-xr-x 112 toupeiro toupeiro 8192 2007-11-21 11:35 toupeiro
Last edited by toupeiro; November 21st, 2007 at 09:36 PM.
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@toupeiro: Oh, right. /home, not ~
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If you think about it, this is likely a symptom of one of the things I find in *nix in general, that you have to type your password to do so much, that a regular Joe becomes lax with it and hands it out like candy, often without even thinking. This isn't a slight against the OS, it's just human nature. Anyone can become careless or complacent through monotony. I don't really think the situation above was indicative of a fault in the command or the manner in which it was used, it's just human nature and it happens in various ways with ALL operating systems and all security schemes...at least in my experience.
NEVER use a command given to you before asking and knowing exactly what it does. Make sure you know what it is that you're telling your system to do before doing it; some commands can be very harmful to your system or leave you vulnerable to attack.
This is true. Sudo has like a 60 second cache of your credential from the last execution. That is per shell session I believe. Again, if you are careful, you will be fine.
Windows has a similar scenario with its system file directories. In the end, your system is your responsibility. There is a great community of people here to help you, but you have to help yourself too
Last edited by toupeiro; November 21st, 2007 at 10:03 PM.
"Its easy to come up with new ideas, the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date." -Roger von Oech
Good idea!
I am learning the ropes on Ubuntu and feel that as I learn I should help as well - a fair price to pay for using the software imho.
I have changed my sig and I hope it helps!
If someone asks you to sudo rm -rf anything, don't do it, and don't run any command with rm in it unless you know exactly what you're doing!
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