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Article #33Re: usermod -u 600 root
From: Frank Dekervel
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:35
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:35
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op Sunday 30 November 2003 04:23 , schreef /dev/rob0 in <slrnbsiom8.re5.rob0@linuxbox.linux.box> : >> This is why NOT COMPUTING AS ROOT is important. > > All this makes me wonder what the OP had hoped to accomplish with this > root oops, creative though it was? Another lesson is to TRUST IN THE > UNIX GODS who have gone before you. If they thought there was a benefit > in changing root's UID to 600, they would have done it a decade or more > ago. > > To restate IOW, if you don't understand something, don't change it. or just change it, and find out why you shouldn't have changed it :p we all burn our fingers sometimes, don't we ... -- Frank Dekervel kervel at drie dot kotnet dot org
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100a19,597489be0160be2d X-Google-Attributes: gid100a19,public X-Google-Thread: 106e9e,597489be0160be2d X-Google-Attributes: gid106e9e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-30 06:35:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!aotearoa.belnet.be!naxos.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!not-for-mail From: Frank Dekervel <kervel-usenet@drie.kotnet.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.security,be.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: usermod -u 600 root Followup-To: comp.os.linux.security Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:35:14 +0100 Organization: tralalaa Lines: 20 Message-ID: <1070202914.215824@seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be> References: <kf9esv0ts24ikvdo4ifkf8ki59ro14vsc5@4ax.com> <pan.2003.11.28.12.46.38.672000@evildomain.dyndns.org> <iljesv4qv298uoflu7hg3i5u7abr5s3m4i@4ax.com> <pan.2003.11.28.18.32.30.132000@evildomain.dyndns.org> <gzWxb.7999$Cj4.7245@twister.socal.rr.com> <slrnbsiom8.re5.rob0@linuxbox.linux.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: naxos.belnet.be 1070202914 2500 134.58.127.12 (30 Nov 2003 14:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@belnet.be NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:35:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.6 Cache-Post-Path: seven.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be!unknown@bakvis.kotnet.org X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/)