installing .run files

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 20.02.2004 schrieb Nils Philippsen um 18:44:
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 18:37, Jon Lindberg wrote:
> 
> > Try running it frim a terminal (as root) ==> # /path/to/file.run ;-)
> 
> People! Be careful with your suggestions, you don't know where this file
> is from, what it is, ... it could be anything from an installer to a
> trojan horse. Randomly running stuff as root is not exactly what I would
> suggest in this case.
> 
> Nils

Absolutely, Nils!

Doing so would be the same odd and stupid behaviour so many Windows[tm]
users demonstrate when "clicking" on every file they get beneath their
mouse pointer :(

Acting as root on Linux you should always double care what you run and
do! And it is a good advice to not recommend anyone - neither
unexperienced user nor more skilled *nix users - to just execute
something they do not exactly know about what it does. 

Alexander


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