Dear sean, nate, Colin, Jamin, thanks for your replies. Even not appreciated in a mailing list of puritans, I reply to all emails by sending one only -- I assume the Debian mailing list is not a list of mailing list-puritans since many full-quoting-top-posters are seen ,-).
* sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-13 02:13]: In fact, I do not care about the root account -- except that I try to keep it as secure as possible. What is important to me are all my files including work results etc. They are backed up regularly on two different locations -- but at least one of them can be easily deleted: if a mallicious program would get my user account, by ssh-ing to other locations no password would be required there (as do probably many users with their cvs repositories). However, the data there is backuped too ,-). The problem was not an "rm -rf /home/ruf". Much worse was the slight change of single bits and bytes, undiscovered over at lest three months; after this period, all backups were thrown away... su lukas -c /usr/bin/mozilla If this was running, I would solve my "problem" /* as written before, on my laptop only I myself is working there. */ * nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-13 02:16]: > > sounds like an interesting idea though. I would think if someone is > that paranoid about security they could just use another account > entirely(or another system) for web browsing. Perhaps something > like VNC, or ssh to another system and tunnel mozilla, or use > multiple local X servers. > I set up on my laptop a different user account. As I am used to start for example ethereal with su -c ethereal, I tried to start mozilla. However, nothing happens. * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-13 02:27]: > > bugzilla.mozilla.org lists plenty ... > uups, was not aware of that. > > No! nobody.nogroup should *never* own any files, ever, ever. It's > correct that Mozilla runs as your user id. > Well, I know that's correct that Mozilla runs as me. But I would like to avoid that. > > It sounds like you want SE Linux, really ... googling for "SE Linux" or > "SE Linux Debian" should help. Much of its development is happening on > Debian. As I understand it, at the moment you'll need to be fairly > proficient to get it running well. > Thanks for the hint, I'll try! > Alternatively, if you're just worried about losing vital personal files, > you might want to consider storing them in a revision control system > (or, of course, keeping good backups). > see above. * Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-13 02:46]: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:57:22PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > Additionally, Linux is frequently installed on multi-user systems, > thus the central cache and download location would be a hassle. > Well, I am aware of that -- however, it's not what concerns me on my laptop ,-) wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf http://www.lpr.ch Wanna know anything about raw ip? Join [EMAIL PROTECTED] on http://www.rawip.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
