[ale] Linux Distributions

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 19:47 -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> 
>>James Sumners wrote:
>>
>>>3. Don't run as root.
>>>
>>
>>Most definately.  This is one of the major reasons that Windows systems
>>are so vulnerable, because the end-user always runs as the Windows equal
>>to UNIX's root user.
> 
> 
> In MS' defense, That has been true only of Win95 and descendants (98,
> ME) and poorly-configured WinNT and descendants (2K, 2K3, XP).  

There is no defense when it comes to XP as the first user created is 
root by default, and there is no indicator that this is the case.  Since 
the majority of XP machines are one user machines, the majority of them 
are in fact running as root.


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Until later, Geoffrey