Re: root login
> Take the other point of view. What if you use root like your normal user
> account? The hacker gets access to this by the same means he gets access
> to your user account before (probably idiocy in this case?) and not only
> can he turn your HDD into a brick, destroy your data, he can also access
> the user accounts of all the people on your system, and tap all their
> passwords and keypresses for any other systems they use. Now which is
> less secure?
True, but nowadays PC are just that: Personal Computers, and if a
hacker/trojan/virus breaks in, the only important thing on the disk is
the (only) user's data. He won't care about the system 'cause he can
reinstall it from scratch if need be. And no, 99% of them won't have
fresh backups handy.
To these users, root/user separation is just a bandaid to not hose the
system by accident, nothing more.
Xav
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