Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Stirling <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Single user linux | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:18:34 +0100 (BST) |
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> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ian Stirling wrote: > > > Also, there is another reason. > > If you'r logged in as root, then any exploitable bug in large programs, > > be it netscape, realplayer, wine, vmware, ... means that the > > cracker owns your machine. <snip> > Heh. You receive all your email on your root account?
Nope. For historical reasons (I gave out this address before I started using linux) and mail to root here does not actually go to root.
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