Re: File manager tree.

["Marc Wilson" <mwilson moonkingdom net>]

No one EVER "knows enough not to mess up".  I've been using and managing
computers for YEARS and I still make the occasional stupid mistake.

So I hedge myself around with safeguards to protect the mistakes I usually
make.

Annoying confirmations should have a disable.  This one should not.  Running
gmc as root is an even EASIER way to destroy the filesystem than 'rm -rf /*'
is and it has even less safeguards.

Just my two cents.

-----
Marc Wilson
mwilson@cts.com
mwilson@moonkingdom.net
http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson/


----- Original Message -----
From: <bob@kehs.ksd.org>
To: Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero <famrom@idecnet.com>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>; <recipient list not shown: ;>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: File manager tree.


>
>
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero wrote:
>
> > >a) TURN THAT DAMN 'RUNNING AS ROOT' ERROR MESSAGE OFF
> >
> > Every time somebody says that, the coders should add another window. "Do
no
> > run as root" -click- "I told you do not run as root" -click- "Yeah, again,
> > do not run as root" -click-.
> >
> > Please, no more "remove the root warning". Read books or e-docs about why
> > you use root to setup the machine, but not as normal user. Or try the
> > special manual for this case: "rm -rf /*". It is a very interesting
manual,
> > you learn... very fast. And you never forget. ;]
>
> You NEED to be root for some things... Creating accounts comes to mind. If
> you are smart, you wont "rm -rf /*". "adduser bob" and "rm -rf /*" arnt
> verry close. Pull the message out of gmc and put it into its own program.
> Then for the people who know what they are doing can remove the message by
> removing it out of the session. The people who know what they are doing
> dont see an anoying message, and the people who dont, get a nice warning
> message. If a user knows enough to pull the message out of the session,
> then they know enough not to mess up.
>
> >
> > GSR
> >
> >
> >
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