-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Messmer wrote:
>On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:06, ashley thomas wrote: > >>Oh and please tell me you are not running the local machine as root ><---- >>Very bad thing to do. Use sudo instead much better idea. > >i have heard this a lot of times ...how is it different ? could you >pls explain it to me ? > >Logging in and actually running your session as root is a bad idea >because a simple slip-up can be disastrous. Late to this thread, so my apologies if this was already pointed out, but there's another, more general, reason to not run as root: by doing so, you're blowing away the division of privileges that is the reason we don't have a virus/trojan problem in the Unix world. Consider, for example, the consequences of malicious Javascript when running as dtalk vs running as root. The reason Windows boxes are wide open is because -- despite the fact that NT-class systems are more than capable of separating privilege at the OS level -- nearly everyone runs as an administrator, and a lot of Win32 software simply won't work any other way. It's a paradigm problem fostered by many years of Win9x thinking. Don't bring it with you to Linux. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPH8l3r9BpdPKTBGtEQJjZgCbBfzqygVexPg+5ugY01NcDDxnIFAAn3f+ MaooRSmVwk7eO5plToxGJX7f =G1F9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
