[3079] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: SIPB Installer Bugs: Custom Install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Oct 11 12:58:25 2000
To: Charles F Dominguez <cfdoming@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 11 Oct 2000 12:58:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: Charles F Dominguez's message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 03:21:45 -0400"
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Charles F Dominguez <cfdoming@MIT.EDU> writes:
> attempts to run it from the afs locker. This is very slow, and prevents
> the root user from running Netscape as they do not have kerberos
> tickets.
Running Netscape as root is probably a bad idea regardless, given how
buggy it is. In general, I'd recommend using your root account for as
little as possible -- when you're root, bugs have the potential to do
MUCH more damage than they can when you're an ordinary user.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
