So why did OpenMoko developers decided to run everything as root? 2008/1/11, Brandon Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Good luck easily hacking over a GPRS connection. Make your password > longer than 6 characters, a ban after retry attempts, take it off port > 22 and that will save 95% of attacks from script kiddies. (everything > I listed is controllable on sshd_config, I believe) > > Just imho it helps, opinion and experience :) > > But overall, I agree, but your privileges are only as safe as your > software. > (eg when you run a socket based process as root, you trust it.) > > However, you make a good point :) > > Kde and gnome take that precaution with gtk based Sudo when you login > as a normal user (at least in debian/ubuntu) and I like that method. > > -------------------------------- > Brandon > > On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But as far as I understand it's not secure, esp. for a device with > > wi-fi, bluetooth, gprs and running ssh daemon! Linux gives us a great > > power of user privilegies management but we waste it. Woldn't it be > > better to run everything as an unprivileged user, or at least ask for > > password at first run time? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenMoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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