<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:arial">On 6 June 2013 16:34, heasley </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial"><<a href="mailto:heas@shrubbery.net" target="_blank">heas@shrubbery.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial"> wrote:</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:57:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon:<div><div class="h5">
> Anyone who abuses the root account loses the root account.<br>
<br>
</div></div>s/abuses/doesnt know what theyre doing with/<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">Some of those that have done this have done it absent mindedly, they are just used to doing "sudo xyz" if "xyz" didn't work in the first place.</div>
<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
anyway, i dont care for such checks, i know what my UID is and things that<br>
think they must protect me from myself are just annoying and its not the<br>
Unix manner. but, if folks would like this, i'd be willing to add a check<br>
that is enabled by a rancid.conf option, which i believe would be sufficient,<br>
right?</blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">That would be great if you could incorporate it into a future release -- it's caught quite a few people out (most of whom should know better, but were touching RANCID for the first time adding a new router or similar through puppet then running rancid-run manually).</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">It's not an urgent or important feature by any rate, but it'd be a great thing to see!</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">M</div></div></div></div>