The same sort of stuff that happens when you surf the 'Net as "root." You
expose your system to lots of "exploits" that are normally not a serious
problem for a "non-privileged" user (someone OTHER than "root.") Personally,
I've never had anything bad happen to my Linux system (at work) since I
never surf as "root."
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Bert Bullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] command prompt
> what kind of bad things?
>
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> >
> > I think you missed what they really wanted, they just wanted runlevel 3
> > tobe default. and actualy theres nothing wrong with useing rungetty to
> > start an autologin as your user (you do it as root, and you deserve all
> > the bad things that are bound to happen)
>
