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From: | Jonadab the Unsightly One |
Subject: | Re: [Ifile-discuss] Ifile |
Date: | 19 Apr 2003 10:49:15 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 |
Preben Randhol <address@hidden> writes: > This is a misconception which is widespread. For a user it doesn't > matter if the system wasn't compromised when all his data and work is > destroyed or tampered with. Indeed. If I accidentally delete /usr I might have to (gasp) boot my distro CD and restore it. Could take all of twenty minutes. If something happens to the contents of my home directory I'll be just a wee bit more unhappy. (Not that I'm deeply worried about ifile in particular; this is just a general principle.) The one type of app that I won't run as root is anything that listens on a port for connections from the internet. (e.g., sendmail).
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