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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] A short PPPOE configuration guide
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:02:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16673.1125352975@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a05082904547e7709e5@mail.gmail.com>

>> Disable permissions checking:

> Put yourself in group sys instead.  This "invent
> root by another name" meme has lasted long enough.

I started to respond to this but halfway through
realized where this meme was coming from, at least
in my mind.

I was feeling nervous about running in group sys
because, well, I could accidentally destroy the
whole file system, right?  Oh.... the worst I
could do would be to destroy *today's* *version*
of the file system, and yesterday's is still there,
and the day before's, and ...

Dave Eckhardt


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-29 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-28  7:49 Vester Thacker
2005-08-29 11:24 ` [9fans] " Vester Thacker
2005-08-29 11:54 ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2005-08-29 13:25   ` Vester Thacker
2005-08-29 13:26   ` Enache Adrian
2005-08-29 13:28     ` Russ Cox
2005-08-29 22:02   ` Dave Eckhardt [this message]
2005-08-30  1:39     ` kokamoto
2005-08-30  1:56       ` kokamoto

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