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permission denied??
Post 5223 by joetech on Thursday 9th of August 2001 01:53:25 AM
08-09-2001
factoid "caution on root logon"
A word of caution....... it is NOT adviseable to surf the internet or to be logged on for extended periods of time with "Root" permissions.
Why? :???
Well, if somebody gains control of your machine, and you have "super-user" powers, they do too! Think of the implications here.
Solution
You can open a terminal and temporarily logon as "root" and do what you need to do, then close that terminal and/ or logoff the terminal and you have an ordinary account again.
Tip
Most folks do a dual boot to a unix flavor so as to keep the windows partition. If this windows partition was compromised prior to the unix install then, the unix partition is also open to exploit.
One should try to do a clean install on a machine without a dual boot partition if one possibly can,however; this is not always possible.
joetech
Why? :???
Well, if somebody gains control of your machine, and you have "super-user" powers, they do too! Think of the implications here.
Solution
You can open a terminal and temporarily logon as "root" and do what you need to do, then close that terminal and/ or logoff the terminal and you have an ordinary account again.
Tip Most folks do a dual boot to a unix flavor so as to keep the windows partition. If this windows partition was compromised prior to the unix install then, the unix partition is also open to exploit.
One should try to do a clean install on a machine without a dual boot partition if one possibly can,however; this is not always possible.
joetech
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