On 4/20/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, it was his claim that for a single-user box, there's no > difference, security-wise, between root and non-root.
Looking back on it, I saw nowhere that Robertson limited his argument to single user systems. He did say, "There's no one area I think you can point out where a machine that's run with the root user could be compromised," and, "I defy anybody to tell me why is it more secure to not run as root." -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
