begin quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:52:44PM -0700: > On 4/19/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're running services, therefore you're running a server. I don't > > put your box into the single-user system category. > > Well, then. Problem solved. > > Every user can potentially run services of some sort, and many of them > will. So, since their not a "single-user system", as you're defining > it, then they don't qualify for the user-root-same-thing thing. > Therefore, they should not be normally running as root.
That's why the first "reason" I gave was promotes 'bad habits'. But if you're invoking "potential", the user can potentially remember not to log in as root when they're running a service. So we're back to where we started. -Stewart "I don't have to like Michael's point." Stremler
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