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Re: root login



Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@dantian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 17:47, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Running as user and catched a virus:  /home/user gets removed. System ok
> 
> Running as root and catched a virus: /root gets removed (where,
> remember, now all the user data is) _and_ System needs reinstall
> 
> I know what I would choose.

And, the virus running as user can't get to the automatic backups of /home
on my second diskdrive. The virus running as root can.

Hylke

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