Destroying "only" your home directory (was Re: Newbie question on permissions)

Mon Apr 3 05:00:12 UTC 2006

On Sun, 2006-02-04 at 23:36 -0500, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:

> You really don't want the operating system protecting you from yourself. 

Just like you really don't want guards on chainsaws?

> If you do there are solutions to this problem.  Good backups are part of
> that solution. 

Good backup apps are a precursor to that particular part of the
solution.

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