Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 Aaron Kulkis:
You see...the whole Unix security model PRESUMED that a user might (either unintentionally or intentionally) write and/or execute a run-away process which could be destructive. Write-permissions (or lack of them) prevent the process from doing damage to anything other than the user's own personal files.
Aaron, I'm taking the liberty to call your set of thinking "old-school" which has a positive side and a negative side. Bad news first: Immense lack of imagination wrt to possible scenarios. Immense. I don't mean to sound rude but you really need to read up on what is going on. For example all of web2.0 is one huge stress-test suite for a browser infrastructure. To take this lightly is ... well, I've already called it names ... But don't. Why would you? Do you audit? Good news: old-school tends to have all the tools ready to deal with the moving target "security on linux". So you stand a chance :) As I said, I'm taking liberties and I'm sure you will shoot back at me (in 1 week or something -- man, you should fix your email, this is like a trip back in time. This thread was _over_). But no hard feelings, allright? Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org