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Re: Shielding Windows/Observations About Force Quit
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Re: Shielding Windows/Observations About Force Quit


  • Subject: Re: Shielding Windows/Observations About Force Quit
  • From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 19:51:48 +0200

On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 07:36 , Andreas Mayer wrote:

That won't make it immune to SIGKILL, although it would mean that the SIGKILL would have to be issued by a user or process that has root privileges.

Sure. But since *nobody* *ever* works with root privileges, that should so the trick, right? ;-)

Ahem. With the "security improvements" which Apple gave us, effectively *anyone* who happens to be in the admin group has root privileges.

Perhaps I have overlooked something pretty important, but still seems to me it would be infinitely better to have one can-do-anything root account with highly secret and carefully chosen password, than to have (with standard installation) the normal working account with its necessarily sloppy password (we are just people all, ain't we?) to be able to do quite anything too (albeit not that easily, but the difference's negligible).
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