Re: to root or not to root

* Paolo Supino (paolo@optivera.com) wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> When I installed opie I noticed that it runs as root.
> Until yesterday it didn't bother me too much (I knew better
> than to monkey around with it) but yesterday I showed a
> friend of mind opie and after he opened the terminal he's
> self destructive tendency ran: 'rm -rf /'. The rest of the
> story is obvious :( Now It burns in my bones that opie runs
> as root. Is there a plan to make it as anything but root?

The big problem is that opie is not a Linux distribution, it's just
a set of apps that run on one. What you should be doing is bugging
the familiar people (http://familiar.handhelds.org), who have been
hesitant about adding a non root user. Personally you should kick
your friends ass for becking a fscking moron and erasing your data.

        Greg
Received on Tue Jun 18 14:02:46 2002