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

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 17:10 -0400, George Carless wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 04:39:11PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > I propose that we take this one step further and have Geoff, Michael,
> > and George come to the next ALE intown meeting and show us their l33t
> > s41lz in realtime in front of an audience.  I'll bring the switch and
> > network cables so that we can do this on a private network, thus
> > preventing their omnipotent powers from bringing down the whole
> > Internet.  :-)
> 
> I really don't think this has anything to do with "l33t s41lz".  It has to do with 
> established best standards, worked out over a great period of time by people 
> better-experienced than you or me.  There's enough documentation out there to support the 
> stance of those of us (really, everyone but you and Drew) who hold that running as root is 
> significantly more risky than running as non-root.  That you want to ignore it really 
> leaves us with nowhere to turn, but you might as well argue that the world is flat, that 
> the world was created by a giant bunny, that people should never take medicine when they 
> are sick or that jumping off tall buildings is a good idea because we could get hit by a 
> bus if we don't.

yeah, yeah, yeah.... but are you willing to show up?  :-)

-Jim P.