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Article #53924Re: How does IRC know I'm <root>?
From: Mr Stuart Lamble
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00
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David Conran (lucifer@maths.uq.edu.au) wrote: : See Basic Unix Sysadmin 102 (2nd semester :) for why you should not run : around in the/a 'root' account. Helpful hint: what happens if somebody sends you some program which you fire up? What happens if that program does the equivalent of "rm -rf /"? 'Tis a case of having the minimum priviledges required for the job. True, it doesn't stop security breaches, but it _does_ keep down the resulting damage. -- Running at a mere 104 billion instructions per second, the SX4 appears to be the only machine actually capable of running Office '97. -- ChipChat, Australian Personal Computer, September 1997 (paraphrased.)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,f301d78265da2078 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: lamble@silas.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr Stuart Lamble) Subject: Re: How does IRC know I'm <root>? Date: 1997/12/15 Message-ID: <6728ma$hog$1@towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 298252339 X-NNTP-Posting-User: lamble References: <3493F9A9.5AA8B064@bigfoot.com> <671ups$8kp$1@nargun.cc.uq.edu.au> Organization: Monash Uni Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux