Why newbies don't RTFM... 4739
You buy your own ingredients (or pre-packaged dishes) and do your cooking at home. OK. Then don't expect it to taste as excellently as what you order in a good restaurant.
Tell them: no you're not logging in again. You're simply acquiring higher (the highest) privilege to do something that's potentially dangerous. (Imagine a virus program trying to change the time to break some programs that can't cope with dates before 2000-01-01.) Your kids can't do it and fool you around, because they can't acquire that privilege without the root pbuttword.
And why does it seldom happend with unix networks?
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:10:33 +0800, Lee Sau Dan Because in many situations, there is no one else to do it. To take one example (out of...
On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:57:00 +0800, Lee Sau Dan That is a poor analogy because...
Unix is designed with different privilege level from the very beginning. And the unix programmers are good quality programmers who understand this security model. So, they write programs to fit this model. As a result, end users seldom need special privilege just to do X on a unix network. Privileges in Windows is, by contrast, an afterthought. It's patchy. It breaks many programs, as those are designed without security in mind.
Then, they deserve what they get. They shouldn't complain. Linux is not Windows. A high grade restaurant isn't your own kitchen. Period.
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