On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Roger Marquis wrote: > Where do people come up with these folk "rules"? I spend all day > working in various root shells as part of my job. Couldn't do it > otherwise. It depends on what type of work you're doing, I suppose. The idea is you should only use root for things that are absolutely necessary. In theory, you should read man pages, investigate everything, and pull up a second shell as root just it issue commands with it. The reasoning is if there's a bug in a program (like man, or lynx, netscape) you could hose the whole system up if you're root (or get it infected). On the less paranoid side, a mistype as root could have rather bad consequences. -- Matt Piechota _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"