OT: Re: [mythtv-users] Autologin for root
J. Donavan Stanley
jdonavan at gorpe.com
Fri Dec 5 17:21:04 EST 2003
Lance Tost wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>>really...since, like you said, the chances of having a security issue
>>>are slim.
>>>
>>>
>>Except of course the case where you run something while autologged in
>>the comprimises your machine...
>>
>>
>
>A little off-topic, but why would that be any worse than running something
>that compromises your machine while logged in not automatically?
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>
It's good practice to only become root when absolutely nesesary and do
everything else as a normal user account. That way if you're
compromised, baring some sort of privilege escalation bug, your system
is at less risk.
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