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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> 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.

Is there something I need to do to let user do things like write to a file 
in /home/user with pico?  I had to chmod Xvesa and SVGAlib (I think) so 
user could use those.  User is rather crippled.

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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