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Re: Packet sniffing & regular users



s. keeling wrote:
> Isn't it generally accepted that black hats who get local access (ie.,
> a user login account) is _much_ worse than black hats who've been kept
> out?  Assuming black hat wants root, taking over a user's account is a
> very big first step.
>
> I would take the security of your user's accounts much more seriously
> if I were you.  If your users are leaving the door open, sooner or
> later someone much worse than the paper boy is going to come stumbling
> in.
<real-me>I'm just playing devil's advocate btw</real-me>
There's a difference between allowing users to spy on other users who have bad
habits and allowing users to modify important files, run a "real editor" as root
in the hopes that they don't find out about M-! or :shell.

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