On Sun, 2019-01-20 at 21:57 +0000, Martin Dorey wrote: > > Why ouch? > > Because it's unpleasant and wasteful to work in an environment where > you're not trusted.
Well, it might not be work-related. I can ssh into my ISP server using my local account so I can muck around and set things up, but I don't have root access to it, and I wouldn't expect to (or, I would be OK with having root because I trust myself but I wouldn't want other people to have root access to that server :-p). For that matter I have an account on the GNU servers but again, no root access. In the early days of the internet anyone with login access to the GNU servers could become root (these are not the FTP etc. servers mind you, but still). After some sad, but predictable, problems RMS was reluctantly convinced that those systems had to be locked down. Anyway, this is getting off-topic for sure ... :). _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
