Arnt Gulbrandsen: > By now, the concept of unprivileged local users is a little obsolete > anyway.
Yes, unless you let your kids or some guests use your computer. > Today, hosts generally serve only one unix user, there > generally is only one local user of one host, and that local user is > the user that owns everything valuable. So is the a real point to > local-user-to-root exploits? I suppose there is, but it is much smaller > than it was ten or twenty years ago. The problem is not the local user == the owner, instead it is an unknown breaking in as a local user and then gaining root powers. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
