On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:52:04 +0200
Paul Foerster
Nothing personal here, but it's people like you, who do not know or understand why logging into KDE as root has serious security implications who definitely need it disabled! People who don't need it disabled won't login as root anyway.
It's just a guess but I think the people who move from Windows to Linux because of the security problems with worms, dialers, spyware etc. (and I've seen several state this as their reason) will get into the same problems if they don't change their ways of operating the PC. It's not directed at the original poster, more a general comment. Linux (any Unix like system for that matter) makes it very easy to NOT run the entire session as administrator. To NOT have dozens of services listening to all present net devices. To NOT be as vulnerable as possible when using the default configuration of your browser/mailer. If you just switch over but then work as root all the time, don't disable the services you don't need, don't install security patches and disable any security settings of the programs you use regularly in order to keep your "windows habits", you didn't gain anything in my opinion. And even if it might be hard to work as normal user under Windows or to disable all that services that listen for incoming connections, this doesn't mean that it has to be hard doing this on linux. In fact it's easy, you only need to find out how to do it once. And it's pretty comfortable as well. Cheers, Ingo -- Ingo Strauch ---- Registered Linux User #227900 (http://counter.li.org/) GPG Key Fingerprint = DEC8 1B12 9573 6BE7 7A99 C33F 809C 8C2C 772E 66A1 http://www.the-one-brack.org/