On Sun, Sep 07, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: >On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:40:58AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> >> I've been leery of Lindows since reading that they run everything >> as root. If that's true, it's no more secure than the average >> Windows box. >> > >Yes, but, you can easily add a regular user, just like with any linux >distro. Using root as the usual user is just laziness or ignorance (I >plead laziness!).
Designing to enable that laziness is one of the primary reasons that Windows >=NT has such major security problems (win <=98 has no security no matter what one does :-). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Liberals love to say things like, 'We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share.' But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave.'' Dr. Thomas Sowell, Forbes, July 1994 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
