[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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