Schmidt András writes: >In my opinion there is nothing that the root account can protect on a >single user handheld device. >Phones are normally used single user. >When an application gets the rights for that user then it can access all >personal information and all network resources (Wifi, GSM network). What >else remains? What resource would you protect with the root account?
System configuration. Having separate user/root accounts in this environment isn't really to protect the machine from unauthorized access, it's to make sure you're thinking when you're modifying system files. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
