[ale] Linux Distributions

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Tue May 17 21:01:07 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 19:47 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > 
> > 3. Don't run as root.
> > 
> 
> Most definately.  This is one of the major reasons that Windows systems
> are so vulnerable, because the end-user always runs as the Windows equal
> to UNIX's root user.

In MS' defense, That has been true only of Win95 and descendants (98,
ME) and poorly-configured WinNT and descendants (2K, 2K3, XP).  

Jeff



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