On Friday 12 August 2005 22:33, Daniel Eckl wrote:
To remember the beginning, the newbie just asked how to do a bad thing. The techies said, "Don't do it that way, it's bad. Better do it this other way."
After that, the newbie asked "why is that bad? I want to do it anyway! Show me a way how to do the bad thing!"
I'm sorry Daniel, but I think that is grossly unfair to Shriramana, and that's the only reason I'm prolonging this antagonistic thread. At no point did he say "I want to do it anyway! Show me a way how to do the bad thing!" Once it was explained to be a "bad thing"(tm) he simply asked why, without understanding that there was no need to login as root even to do admin tasks. Then people seemed to jump all over him. Not you initially, as I did see your helpful follow up after my earlier small contribution. Shriramana is only guilty of curiosity and inquisitiveness. Qualities that should be encouraged. I hope amongst all the noise that Shriramana found (and more importantly understood) the answers buried in this gargantuan thread. -- Steve Boddy