Re: Authorization without permanent setuid on helper
Re: Authorization without permanent setuid on helper
- Subject: Re: Authorization without permanent setuid on helper
- From: OL&L Lists <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:36:07 -0800
At 6:24 PM -0600 1/21/05, Charles Srstka wrote:
On Jan 21, 2005, at 6:05 PM, OL&L Lists wrote:
As for the template substitution issue, the idea is that most
people do not run their machines as admin
Wow, that's a really flawed assumption. I would say that the vast,
*vast* majority of users run their machines as admin, as most of
them have no idea what admin is, or even what a multi-user system
is, and new Macs come with one admin user created, and auto-login
set, by default.
The number of users who change this default setting and run as a
non-admin is certainly far smaller than that of those who don't.
Charles
Well, that's like saying people use UNIX and don't understand the
dangers of running as root. If you are ignorant, then you deserve to
get burned. If you are worried about security, then pick up a book on
security and read - and discover that running any UNIX machine as
root is dangerous.
UNIX is designed to allow the system to be run as root - if that is
what you want - if you allow that to happen, you will have security
holes. That, by definition, is UNIX.
Blame AT&T Bell Labs, not Apple.
Michael
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