On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:29 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:04 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: > > As has been pointed out, however, serious damage can be done even if > > the > > cracker never gets root privileges. > > Many people lose sight of the fact that their important data is in their > home directory. > > If I lose /bin I can download and reinstall stuff to create it again. Not if it's been replaced by something else without you noticing. > If I lose my home directory, all of my data is gone and I can't just > download it from some random ftp server and reinstall. So back it up. > Yet /bin is much better protected (from me) than my home directory. Linux is a multi-user system. The fact that it often has only one user doesn't change that. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines