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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: OFFTOPIC: configure vs. ./configure
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () rikkus ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-07-01 21:56:39
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On 01-Jul-99 Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> 
>> No. Even with this you might be in trouble. There is a chance that
>> admin will mistype some command (for example ls ) and there are files
>> like la, ka, ld etc. in tmp dir ;)
> 
> Well then don't do these things as root.  A lot of things that might be
> done as root (such as finding out what files exist in /tmp) really don't
> need to be done as root, and especially on a single user machine, putting
> '.' at the end of the path isn't that big of a deal.

Heh, that's not really good advice. If you have a dir readable only by root in
/tmp, you need to be root to read it. As a sysadmin, I'd sack any admin
who had '.' in their path. Mind you, I'd also sack any admin who logged in as
root.

Cheers,
Rik


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