On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Bernhard Voelker
Many well-written servers still drop their root-privileges as early as they can to avoid possible damage, and then some guys would circumvent all the security in the design of UNIX/Linux and run *all* as root?!? I'd call this ignorant and disrespectful.
It's like walking with a lighted candle in a building storing gas bottles; it may work, but you never know if one of the bottles is leaking gas (not to mention if some funny jerk has opened the valve of one on purpose).
Therefore, I belief there's only one rule to remember: don't do it.
That is certainly one of the reasons Microsoft went to a restricted user model in Windows 7 (or Vista I assume) even when people log in as an "administrator" level account. Even if malware gets executed on the machine it will typically not have admin rights. On the other hand when I boot from a openSUSE DVD I typically do log in as root. At some point you have to trust the environment. (I use a susestudio built openSUSE DVD routinely, but I maintain it and know what is on it.) Greg -- Greg Freemyer www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org