On 4/20/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's that the target market for Linspire > (aka Lindows) are those of unwashed masses who are going to use the machine > in a single-user frame of mind. And whats-his-face's assertion that there > is no security problem in that case is distressingly hard to refute.
I am confused. If these single-user systems get attacked and compromised while they're running as root, the attacker can do a lot more to the system than if the person was running as something other than root. E.g., the attacker can hide the fact that the system has been compromised, which is much more difficult to do without root access. This has been pointed out here more than once. Why is this *not* a refutation of the idea that there's no security problem running as root in a single-user system? --Rachel -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
