Thoughts about running as root

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Hull [mailto:dphull at insipid.com]

> Do you ever download and install untrusted software to your 
> box as root?

Defining "untrusted" as software that I'm fairly certain of but don't have
full authentication on - downloaded it from a reasonable source and it's
unlikely to be targeted, but I can't prove it - yes, but only on test
systems.  The prod systems don't get anything without full MD5
authentication from a secure source.