begin quoting gossamer axe as of Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:50:37PM -0700: > > Actually, it was his claim that for a single-user box, there's no > > difference, security-wise, between root and non-root. > > If it's a stand alone computer not hooked up to a network
Pre-MacOS-X Macs were effectively 'everyone is root', and they were quite secure on the network. > and he's the > only one using it... Thus "single-user"... > It's was also my understanding that Linspire, doesn't come with things > like Apache, Mysql, Samba and other network services by default. Does > it even come installed with ssh? or is that also a "download later" > matter? No idea. -Stewart "Won't touch Linspire myself." Stremler
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