Bug 19407

Summary:	aliases in .bashrc are very annoying
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Component:	rootfiles	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	dr, ignacio, nalin, rvokal
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Description Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-10-19 21:58:16 UTC

I think the "-i" alias in /root/.bashrc are highly annoying (and to make it
worse, cp now ignores "-f" if used with "-i"), and causes the "massive y
syndrom" (pressing y all the time without reading).

I would love for this alias to go away.

Comment 1 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2000-10-19 23:03:53 UTC

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I fail to see what the problem is with just editing it out after the fact. It is
annoying, but it is a useful security feature for newbies (which we DON'T want
to scare away, believe it or not). Anyway, just my two cents.

Comment 2 Daniel Roesen 2000-10-20 11:01:23 UTC

I also think they should simply "go away". People not thinking before typing 
must learn - perhaps the hard way. The "y-Syndrome" is a very good point.

Comment 3 Nick Urbanik 2001-01-27 06:01:03 UTC

Simple workaround: /bin/cp instead of cp
Quote from "Unix System Administration Handbook", Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass and
Hein, 2001, page 87:

However, don't confuse users by "protecting" them from UNIX; entries such as

alias dir ls -l
alias rm rm -i
alias cp cp -i

are in poor taste.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-30 21:06:50 UTC

After internal discussion, it was decided to leave them as-is.