Thoughts about running as root

[JD Runyan]

I believe that the argument is that when someone is using it as the sole
user, why not use root, not when you are on a multi-human system.  The
best rational not to do this, is that if by some chance your box has
been compromised, and someone has installed at trojan horse then you
risk allowing the trojan full access to your system.

On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 20:09, Dustin Decker wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> 
> > So while it's fairly dangerous for someone with a lot of Unix user
> > experience to run Linux as root, for me it's no worse than running DOS as
> > ... well, running DOS.
> 
> The most significant difference here is DOS is real-mode single user...  
> *nix is not.  If you're the only person using your system, feel free to
> do "whatever"...  just remember (for the sake of this junior folks who
> might be paying attention) that if you hose a multi-user system you're
> not the only one to be inconvenienced.
> 
> Dustin
> 
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Jason D. Runyan
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