[ale] Linux Distributions

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 20:43 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
> The other problem is that you cannot trust users, and sometimes you
> can't trust yourself.  If your user has access to things, that's fine,
> but if your user has root privilege because you're running as root, and
> you *need* root privilege that often that it is worth it to you to throw
> security out the window, you've designed the build of your system and
> it's customizations horribly wrong.  I wouldn't want anyone with that
> school of thought to be anywhere close to the boxes that I manage myself
> for others, because that's just asking for yet another security risk
> that is unnecessary.  Really.
> 
> Unles you are perfect, root isn't something that you should be running
> as on a regular basis.  And if you're perfect, then you've no need to be
> in any LUG, or any user group at all.

But, if you are the only desktop user (i.e. not a server) of your own
machine, 99% of what you say above is non-applicable.  So, looking at it
from a different angle, say a traveling Linux laptop user, where's the
risk of running as root?

-Jim P.