Re: question about Linux boxes only running as root

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Baho Utot wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

[putolin]

I do think people get too antsy about security. By far and away the
greater risks are not from root kits, but from things like phishing and
so on. There are ten unguarded windows boxes for every one reasonbly
well guarded linux box. They are a much softer target. Id say that
running as root is an unnecessary risk, with almost no benefits, but its
not the worst thing you can do.

The worst thing you could do is type rm -rf / or rm -rf .* while as root
account.

No, the worst thing you could do is do that and then don't learn from it.

Michael

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