Carl R. Witty wrote: > There is at least one way in which root is less vulnerable than bin to > cracking. If your machine has files exported via NFS with > root_squash, then somebody who cracks root on a client machine can > modify files owned by bin on your machine, but not files owned by > root. There may be other similar security measures aimed at > protecting root in particular.
Ah, you're right. Of course this is another example of the root-specific security measures mentioned elsewhere on this thread (and a damn good one too). -- see shy jo
