<quote who="Ian Nicoll">
> Onto another topic, one of the things I've heard, and agree with, is to
> NEVER log onto the net using superuser. Fair enough, but while I'm doing
> 'stuff' like trying to install a program, I use su, but log into terminal
> and change to su.
>
> Question is - am I breaching any security issues? I'm logged into Gnome
> as the user 'ian' but logged into terminal as the su. 'ian' has logged
> onto the net, but 'su' is there in a terminal. How risky is this?
Not at all; you're not running any programs that use network resources as
root, you're just doing system administration tasks.
If you always logged in as root, or if you used an IRC program or somesuch
from your su'ed root, that would be a problem.
- Jeff
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