On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:24:10PM -0500, demonbane@the-love-shack.net wrote: > And finally, what if, say Mozilla, ends up having a security hole as > serious as the Office XP + IE security problem from a while ago that > allowed remote sites to execute commands on your computer. rm -rf /* seems > like a prime candidate for a malicious attack but losing /tmp doesn't > really worry me all that much. Compared to losing my Debian installation (I am quite good at installing systems from scratch... :), I have by far a bigger problem with somebody doing rm -Rf /home/torsten on my system. And this can be done as my normal user... The point in running as a user really starts making sense if you have a number of persons running the computer. If somebody uses a web browser with security holes and gets his $HOME removed, nobody else on the system should be affected. Greetings Torsten
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