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Personally, not only do I not run as root or administrator, but I run
(on Linux, Solaris, Mac, and Windows) as a normal user, and use a
seperate account for accessing services outside my scope of
administrative authority (read: trust). I use sudo on Linux and Mac
OSX, plain old su on Solaris, and "run as" on Windows (2k and up).
Since I tend to toy around with malicious code captured on honeypots
quite a bit, this has saved me from extra work cleaning systems on
several occasions. VMWare helps to offset this requirement a bit, but
I am not always on a machine that has enough resources to run multiple
VMs.
--
Jonathan
On 5/17/05, Michael B. Trausch <fd0man at gmail.com> 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.
>
> - Mike
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