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.
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>>Except of course the case where you run something while autologged in 
>>the comprimises your machine...
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>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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