Re: Melissa Virus

[Russ Allbery]

Paul Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Again, this is a security issue, not a single/multi user issue.  It
> should be difficult to delete or modify a .dll/exe program file.

> You SHOULD have to type into a special "admin" account to install/remove
> a program.  Single user or not.

While this may very well be a good idea, I'm not aware of any Unix which
requires this, provided that the program doesn't want to talk on
priveleged ports or have access to raw hardware.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>