[BL] serial networking and telnet server
3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org
3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org
Tue Oct 19 15:43:53 EDT 2004
sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > su gives super user (root) access to ordinary users
> > (if they know the root password).
>
> I will get it from shadow.tgz and try it but why do that
> instead of just log in as root? Is it really more secure
> somehow?
AFAIK su is no more secure than root. The security comes
from running as user and only using su when you really need
it.
> I am tired of running into things user cannot do, such as
> write files to disk.
That's why BL3 runs as root.
Cheers,
Steven
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