2008/5/5 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > True if you're dealing with a multi-user system where most people > don't have root or physical access to the box. Not true if you're > dealing with what's effectively a single user system where the user / > root split is merely there to prevent accidents.
Admittedly, I haven't thought of that - so it's not really necessary in the strict sense. But even then IMO it is Good Practice to clean out the environment when becoming root, as (1) it is not good to rely too much on external firewalls to keep off intruders, and (2) there is anyway no reason for root to have e.b. /usr/games/bin in PATH. _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
