[Elecraft] Firmware upgrades using Ubuntu 12.04

[Jussi Eloranta]

On 07/07/2012 06:36 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2012 07 Jul 16:38 -0500, Adrian wrote:
>   
>> I am very naughty here and run as root all the time now in fedora 17
>> (started on centOS 5 and fedora 10),  so permissions are not an issue.
>>
>> Have been doing that for 6 years and yet to have an issue.
> Until someone tells you to:
>
> cd /
> rm -rf *
>
> Have a nice day!
>
While you might not type that in, there might be an ill behaving program 
(on purpose or a bug) that could do something like that. Or simply you 
open up a tar archive or something and that might overwrite important 
files etc. I would strongly advise against running everything as root.

Jussi Eloranta (AA6KJ)