At 12:36 PM 2/3/2003 +0800, you wrote:
Heh, I'll just keep passing on these emails. We'll talk again sometime about it & I'm sure he'll come around soon. Just needed some more solid arguments which you listers have given me. :)Everyone keeps talking about the security...what about the chance that he will accidently wipe his hard drive, and if yours is a mounted directory he has write access to, some of yours as well??? (back to security.) how about when someone writes a virus that actually works well for linux?? he will trash his whole system, you will most likely just trash your users files... If none of that convinces him, then tell him to take the seatbelts and doors off his car and go hooning at 100mph... he would probably do it... An extra note. Root on a unix box was added for security purposes, not admin purposes... if it was for admin, any authed user could do it... They wanted to limit the damage normal users could do. Root/admin on a windows box was added as an after thought.. (copied (badly) from unix I suspect.) and its as much a tool to deligate admin tasks as it is a security precaution.. after all, in one of Microshafts latest OS's all users are root.. The solution??? block his PC from yours in your firewall rules.. and put his IP in /etc/hosts.deny (with ALL: in front of it) :-) rgds Franki
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