From: Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:30:26 +0900
On MSWindows XP, ... surfing the net as the primary admin user
... was the primary path of ingress and the primary cause of the
proliferation of 'bot nets.
A flaw in Windows to contrast with Debian?
And accessing your bank logged in as the same user that you use to
surf random sites is one of the primary causes of leaked bank account
numbers and passwords.
The banking information is stored in a cookie. Subsequently a site other
than the bank is allowed to read the cookie? A failure of the browser.
Correct? Prior to studying this thoroughly, I might stick to personal banking.
What does Puppy have to do with anything?
Merely an example contrasting a multi-user installation. It's the best
example I could conjure.
And what does using permissions improperly to allow several people to
edit a document have to do with anything?
Certainly permissions should be used correctly.
There can be more than one solution to a problem. To learn more about
a wiki server and how it can support cooperative editing of a document
and whether it can run on a single user system, I'll have to study further.
I'm sorry to be rude, but I'm in a bad mood today.
No obligation. Your first response was helpful already. Hundreds of other
bright people read this an can contribute.
I'm not going to
try to carefully explain to you why you don't want your son or your
best friend to log in as root ...
That is exactly what might happen with Puppy Linux. But not every
computer is time shared.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_sharing
Physical security of a personal machine can exclude everyone but the
owner and personal ownership of computers is commonplace. Cell
phones alone must outnumber desktop machines by a factor of 1000 or more.
... you don't want all your users having full access to every document
on your system.
The fixed disk drive is no longer the only working storage. Data can be
on a flash store which is removed when the user leaves the machine.
Our discussion emphasizes that I also need to convince myself that
browser data is not left in /tmp or in ~/.config at logout. ~/.bash_logout
might be my last resort to remove data left by sloppy software and I need to
study further. Seems the topic should be in http://wiki.debian.org/.
Regards, ... Peter E.