[ale] Sunday 05-22-05 6PM RUN-AS-ROOT CHALLENGE

[Michael B. Trausch]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 18:18 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> 
>>The simple fact is this:  If you are so smart as to have devised a way
>>to run as root while invalidating every single point posted to this
>>list, you're a bloody genius and ought to fix your own problems.  That's
>>the simple fact.
> 
> 
> At the risk of sounding redundant... the only two suggested problems
> that have been posted seem to only have to deal with "rm -rf /" and
> fsck.  Both are dangerous things, but minor compared to what the
> non-root user can do to data in their own directory.  From an
> administrator of other peoples systems "rm -rf /" can be a headache, for
> an administrator of their own system "rm -rf /home/user" is a bigger
> headache.  
>

You completely ignored the "if not root, software is harder to install
and viruses which attack the OS are harder to catch and such things are
harder to propegate".

This is also fact.

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