On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <[email protected]>wrote:
> With sudo, there's a five minute time when you can access the root > privs, later you've re-enter the password. > When you login as root, there's no such time limit, if you leave your > box on in root account, somebody can misuse it. > > If you browse internet using root account, it is very much possible > that some javascript or some flash app, can take control over your > system which is strictly impossible when you use the user account. > > With root account, applications running can write to the binary > directories, /bin, /usr/bin, /lib, /usr/lib and can place a malware > there. > > this is absolutly right so the root gui makes the system vulnerable like windows !! which we dont want :P > -- > Regards, > Nilesh Govindarajan > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr > Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr > Website: http://www.itech7.com > VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
