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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A short PPPOE configuration guide
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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:02:55 -0400
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>> 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