On Sunday 28 April 2002 02:32 pm, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
Now THAT'S interesting since I never had this with 7.3 or any previous release (and, GASP, I ALWAYS run as root since linux 0.99pl6 in 1994 or 95 and I have never trashed a system for THAT reason :-) )
Whippersnapper! My first Linux kernel was 0.95! That having been said, the problem nowadays isn't so much as you trashing the system by running as root, it's by crackers owning a X windows system if you run X as root. If you need rootley powers at any given time (you probably already know this but maybe others in this thread don't) use su to change identity to root for those tasks. It's such a cause for exploits on the net that several IRC channels automatically kick/ban anyone who logs in as root. -- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides