--- In [email protected], Robert C Wittig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
[...]
> ...so the only way into a shell account (as opposed to a email-only
> account) is with an *extremely* hard password, into an obscurely-
named
> wheel account, and then, su to root.
I see I have a bit of studying to do! What you propose looks pretty
hard to crack, once it's running.
[...]
> Also, a cracker would still be able to have a nice foot in the
door,
> even if they just got control of your everyday desktop identity,
and
> managed to install a keylogger locally in one of your /home
subdirs,
> like '...', which might take a typical graphical desktop user a
while
> to notice... enough time to capture the passwords to your Bank
> account, eBay account, PayPal account, etc... all w/o ever having
root
> privileges.
So if I keep tabs on my /home subdirs that should do it for now,
until I understand the rest ;-)
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