On Wednesday 15 November 2006 11:20, Craig White wrote: >On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 10:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:48, Craig White wrote: >> >On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:29 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> >Of course going from such an old version of firefox to a new >> >> > version may cause problems....nothing to big I hope. >> >> >> >> The old version was 1.5.0.8, it was not a fedora sourced rpm. Once >> >> you have installed the real firefox by their installer, updates are >> >> automatic anytime there is one available. >> > >> >---- >> >most people have the good sense not to run GUI as root >> >> Chuckle, there ya go again Craig, see how you are? I'm an old fart >> and the machine is mine... > >---- >and how am I? I'm in too good a mood to go there, other than to say that as a teacher, you must be frustrated with this student. :-) >Many Linux distributions disable root login altogether. Many Linux >distributions prevent root login via GUI. You know that it is not >recommended because that means that every process that runs (which is a >lot) when you are in GUI, has root privileges. It means that every >script on every web site you visit, be it java, javascript, whatever, >executes as root. It means that any script you encounter anywhere, be it >in OOo, a shell script, etc. has root privileges. On first boot, you are >told to create a user account and not to run as root. I can't think of a >single thing that you could do that would compromise the security of >your machine more than running as root. I'm not sure why, Craig, but when I rebooted after the install, and firstboot ran, I expected it to ask me to setup a user account. But it didn't, and like the missing crontab file, which it appears I am not the only one on that point, I have NDI why. I've added me and several others such as amanda as users, but old habits die hard. >I do know of one OS that routinely has the 'superuser' running in GUI - >it's called Windows. Now go warsh yur mouth out with some of grandmas lye soap, yawl hear! >But yes, it is your machine. > >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
