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Not surprising at all. I would point out that there were some factual errors in that article. Namely, UNIX. UNIX does -not- prompt you when you are doing something "dangerous" while logged in as root. That would be totally retarded. The whole point of root is that you are God - what you say goes!.
 
mdhmi said:
Not surprising at all. I would point out that there were some factual errors in that article. Namely, UNIX. UNIX does -not- prompt you when you are doing something "dangerous" while logged in as root. That would be totally retarded. The whole point of root is that you are God - what you say goes!.
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true however there are certain times when even as root you must supply the root password to prefrom and action.

Howver with Vista It's fucking ridiculos, oh you want to a delete a file in Programs, Warning, Oh wait you must be admin. Warning etc etc etc
 
Line Noise said:
true however there are certain times when even as root you must supply the root password to prefrom and action.
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No, that is -not- true, at least in the case of UNIX. Maybe Linux has gotten bastardized, but, certainly not UNIX.
 
mdhmi said:
No, that is -not- true, at least in the case of UNIX. Maybe Linux has gotten bastardized, but, certainly not UNIX.
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SCO Openserver requirres the root password to be enetered for quite a few funtions (You'll have to excuse me as the last time I actually had to ad min a nix box was 96) also many linux distro's do also...
 
Line Noise said:
SCO Openserver requirres the root password to be enetered for quite a few funtions (You'll have to excuse me as the last time I actually had to ad min a nix box was 96) also many linux distro's do also...
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Unless you have something setup for the root account. Once you login with root you are on your own. Even with linux, and OS X.

The only reason I'll be upgrading to Vista is for full DX10 functionality. Check this video out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSOZGCcFYU
 
ReallyRedCobra said:
Once you login with root you are on your own. Even with linux, and OS X.
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And that was my point. I specialize in Solaris and have supported AIX and Linux as well.
 
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