On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 14:04, Alan Shutko wrote: > Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In fact, just this week, I am engaged with a prominent software > > development company, and every one of the developers develops on > > various Linux boxen, and every one of them insists on running as root. > > Could you name names, so we know which imbeciles to avoid? The two > Unix development houses I've worked at never did that. > > Of course, the parent post was wrong. Even as non-root, you have to > worry about email viruses or click-thru vectors, because _they don't > need root to work_.
How can an email virus work on *ix? And a click-thru virus (or is it really a trojan?) can only do damage to files that you have privs to touch (unless there's a bug in Java or JavaScript). > -- > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. > Guns don't kill people, OS/2 salesmen do... No *that* is funny. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As I like to joke, I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular" David Bradley, regarding Ctrl-Alt-Del -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
