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On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:28:58PM +0200, Łukasz Damentko wrote:
> Now situation looks really strange. We encourage users not to use root
> account in security docs, but all over our place, in every code
> listing, we have root prompt ("#") which suggests users to use that
> account to perform all the actions.
>
> My idea is that we should use "$" - user prompt - whereever command can
> be or should be run as normal user.
Like Xavier said, most documents have ~# or # because they talk about
configuration settings. However, when possible, we should indeed use ~$ or $
instead.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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