-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Schneider wrote: > Linux is a multi-user system. I don't care if there's only one user > logged in it doesn't change it into a single user system. Linux single > is single user. No network, no X, no multi-user. Sounds like a secure > Linux system to me! :-)
Ah...this is a very important point which I have been missing up until now: Linux already has predefined conventions for what is single user and what is multi user. If you aren't in runlevel 1 it really isn't a single user box. The security that comes with Linux is architected around this. When you log into single user mode what uid do you always go in as? 0! You never login as a normal user and then sudo. > Linux 1 is single user mode. Yep. > Not in this thread, but in past arguments on this list. You have been > adamant at times about wanting to install packages in your home > directory, for testing. You have complained about your inability to > use a package manager to do so. If you mount the drive noexec, then > you can't do that. Ah...good point. SJS has indeed complained that install scripts had paths hard coded into them which prevented him from installing things in $HOME. He wanted properly relocatable rpm's etc. - -- Tracy R Reed http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCZcdS9PIYKZYVAq0RAp2UAJ9aI5W7mq0nGDHkczdd3MdlGyY3+QCbBVpR 3FQs1VYpqm4Qh7cRw8ZSctw= =xMYw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
