Re: File manager tree.

["Vsevolod E. Shorin" <vsevolod uniyar ac ru>]

On Mon, 31 May 1999 bob@kehs.ksd.org wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero wrote:
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> > >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.

Maybe it should be made a feature that can be turned off in some kind of
preferences box?

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> > 
> > GSR
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