On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:50 PM, <peasth...@shaw.ca> wrote: > * From: Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> > * Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 02:39:26 +0900 >> ... your personal >> computer needs at least an admin user (besides root) and a personal >> user for general tasks and a personal user for bank access, etc. > > What about Puppy Linux with only a root account? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Linux > After installing Firefox I was able to access my bank account from there.
Uhm, if you really want to, you can do that with any Unix-like OS. On MSWindows XP, the corollary was standard operating procedure, surfing the net as the primary admin user. And that includes your bank account. The question is why you would want to. That SOP was the primary path of ingress and the primary cause of the proliferation of 'bot nets. And accessing your bank logged in as the same user that you use to surf random sites is one of the primary causes of leaked bank account numbers and passwords. >> When a computer or a network is used for community tasks and projects, >> that task or project needs a user id and a resources assigned to it. > > I didn't try to run a wiki server but if one is installed on a Puppy > Linux, wouldn't that allow several people to edit a document? What does Puppy have to do with anything? And what does using permissions improperly to allow several people to edit a document have to do with anything? I'm sorry to be rude, but I'm in a bad mood today. So I'm not going to try to carefully explain to you why you don't want your son or your best friend to log in as root on the machine you use for work, or why you don't want all your users having full access to every document on your system. Surely you can understand the problem if you think about it from the frame of mind that even your close family or your best friend is going to do things you wish they hadn't. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caar43io8bm4retfz264k0phguamu8rzjsu7s1sp7zdzkd-1...@mail.gmail.com