Re: su and root not the same??

[Charles Galpin]

actually it's more about you being root, unintentionaly running someone
else's script. In my example I should have pointed out that *anyone* could
create an executeable file called /tmp/ls.

charles

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote:

> 
> ok, thanks for the info. I never really thought of it like that, someone else
> running as root. Even though they would never get my password, I guess there are
> other ways of becoming root. Thanks again.
> 
> jake
> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Charles Galpin wrote:
> 
> --I didn't see anyone answer this, so I'll give it a stab.
> --
> --It protects you against trojans. The beauty of the unix security model is
> --that a 'regular' user can't do much wrong to the system, only to
> --themselves. However if you can get root to run something malicious (like
> --"rm -rf /") then you can really cause some damage.


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