Re: [Ltib] Using LTIB without root privileges

[John Clark]

On Jul 6, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Stuart Hughes wrote:

> What are the real risk you talk about? There are no significant risks that I 
> can see. Risk is commonly defined as:
> 

What does irritate me about the 'no root' business the lack of a real 
'override'. I would prefer not bothering with sudo at all.

As for greater 'corporate' IT concerns... get a development machine off the 
corporate infrastructure in the first place.

In more than 30 years of unix use, there is only one incident where I've shot 
myself in the foot... I fsck'ed a distribution '/usr' disk... on a system that 
was just plain too small for running unix in the first place, and I was 
swapping the 'whopping' 14MB disk packs... and put the wrong one in...

But other than that... no 'cd /; rm -rf *'... type errors ever.

I realize this flies in the face of many IT people's need for control... and 
there is probably good reason why I have always preferred small development 
groups in small companies because of the much reduced need for IT departments 
to 'get involved'... if there's an IT department at all.

IT departments are probably the greatest reason why Windows exists at all... 
and of course the holes in Windows probably provides IT departments guaranteed 
work for the foreseeable future...

John Clark.