Re: question about Linux boxes only running as root

doctor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (The Doctor) writes:

In article <R0OIm.3739$gg6.1377@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Wanna-Be Sys Admin <sysadmin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Doctor wrote:

Right I got a customer who is only running one account, namely root
and 1 app. I suspect this person is opening himself to trouble.

yes/no?

Depends, might be perfectly fine (and probably is). What's the
application running? Anyway, most of security issues revolve around
things other than root 99% of the time (but those 99% of things usually
end up being things done as root once exploited).
--
Not really a wanna-be, but I don't know everything.

And E-newsletter app.


That's vague.

Is it a web page?
Is it an X-based page viewer?
Is it a mailling list handler?

You should not do ANY of these as root.
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