On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:06:26AM -0400, William Hooper wrote: > Running untrusted executables as root is a PBCAK. Period. I don't care > what OS you are running, be it Linux or BSD or WinXP. > In this context, the reason that Linux is "better than Windows" is because > it was designed from the ground up to do day to day tasks with a non-root > user. Anyone that circumvents this (Linspire anyone?) is asking for the > same trouble that a Windows system always running as root has. I think we're basically in agreement. However, I'm afraid that simple dismissive statements like the "~0" one I responded to are part of the problem. It has the risk of leaving the wrong impression, and leading to the sort of fuzzy thinking that brings us Linspire's run-as-root model. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
