On Monday 10 November 2008 20:30:13 William L. Maltby wrote: > > Helped by circumstances. _Normally_, the default install has those > aliases only assigned for root, due to the great risk to the system. > > So it would be a natural assumption. As usual "assume" has its risks. > Well, it might have been painful at the time, dealing with this and with the damage on the box after the kernel bug at the same time, but I've learned a good deal, thanks to the patient answers to my questions. Every cloud has a silver lining :-) Anne -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081110/3a17d7b1/attachment-0005.sig>