yeah and anyone with physiacal access to the machine can boot from another medium (cd, floppy) and totally fsck you over.
there is little point in placing your computer around people you don't trust. Having said that, some unintentioned but stoopid person could be tempted to try their new rm script if they find an available root login! one thing of course you could do is screen cd /usr/src/linux make ... whatever ctrl-a d it'll keep chugging but there won't be a logged in terminal for someone to fsck with. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:43:58 +1200 Brad Beveridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plain paranoia I expect. Kernel compiles can take a long time, if you walk away > from the console, a simple Ctl-C & you've just given root access to anyone. > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: C Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, 10 July 2003 12:30 p.m. > > To: Linux Users Group > > Subject: Re: Shell Scripting, and Kernel Compiling Lessons at OSTC. > > > > > > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 12:00, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > > 3. The above line assumes the kernel and modules are built as root. > > > This is needless. You should build the kernel and > > modules under a > > > non-privileged user and use root _only_ to install the > > kernel and > > > modules. > > > > Whats wrong with that? > > > > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
