On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:57 AM, pahnin sd <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> With sudo, there's a five minute time when you can access the root >> privs, later you've re-enter the password. >> When you login as root, there's no such time limit, if you leave your >> box on in root account, somebody can misuse it. >> >> If you browse internet using root account, it is very much possible >> that some javascript or some flash app, can take control over your >> system which is strictly impossible when you use the user account. >> >> With root account, applications running can write to the binary >> directories, /bin, /usr/bin, /lib, /usr/lib and can place a malware >> there. >> >> this is absolutly right > so the root gui makes the system vulnerable like windows !! > which we dont want :P > Even I do not want too. I never logged in as root user. But I wanted to list out of the points. Thanks for discussion ! -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
