Ok, well "rm -rf." where "." = $HOME
The point is that the user data is what's important, and it's difficult to set up permissions that protect you from deleting the "important" stuff without putting undo burden on the user.
He's talking about home-desktop systems, not production servers. Now everyone does their home-desktop differently, but most non-technical people I know who use WinXP don't have separate accounts for each person in the house.
Ok, a lot of people are talking about doing a "rm -rf/"
But you're missing his point completely. The operating system is easily replacable. It doesn't take long to re-install. But it would take a lot of time and effort for me to re-create all the stuff in my home directory. And that "rm" command would remove my home directory as either root or my normal user.
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Ok, well "rm -rf ." where "." = $HOME
The point is that the user data is what's important, and it's difficult to set up permissions that protect you from deleting the "important" stuff without putting undo burden on the user.
He's talking about home-desktop systems, not production servers. Now everyone does their home-desktop differently, but most non-technical people I know who use WinXP don't have separate accounts for each person in the house.
Ok, a lot of people are talking about doing a "rm -rf /"
But you're missing his point completely. The operating system is easily replacable. It doesn't take long to re-install. But it would take a lot of time and effort for me to re-create all the stuff in my home directory. And that "rm" command would remove my home directory as either root or my normal user.