[ale] Linux Distributions

Robert L. Harris Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net
Tue May 17 14:26:35 EDT 2005


Thus spake Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com):

> 
> What's the difference between "sudo mkfs /dev/hda8" and runing
> "mkfs /dev/hda8" as root?   
> 

Nothing but what's the difference between running kazaa as jimpop and
kazaa as root any other lesser known app which might have a back door 
due to less scruitany?

The issue isn't (generally) the well known apps which have many
developers looking at it over a long time such as mkfs, ifconfig, ip,
etc but the other 3rd party apps with a less picked apart code.



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