On Thursday 18 Aug 2005 03:03, John Wilson wrote: > > It's also an order of magnitude harder to write a worm, virus etc that > will successfully attack a *Nix OS than it is Windows. At least part of > it is the requirement in most systems to have separate root and user > passwords. Add the idea of access control and now you have it. > Yet we have seen on this list user claiming that since they are the only user for the pc it is acceptable to use linux as root, without a password, and no user installed. They don't seem to stick around for long, these users, but they are the same users as get into trouble with windows.
Anne
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