On Dec 05 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> just to toss my personal preference in... i created a dedicated
> user account for building things like kernels and locally installed
> software
I did something similar to this, but not only to build things.
I use a dummy user for evaluating programs that I don't know
very much about (and which obviously are not setuid anybody
else) -- so that if the program sends something back to
whoever wrote it (e.g., like it is rumoured about Real
Player), it doesn't grab *my* sensitive data.
I do this until I feel comfortable with the software to use
under my own account.
[]s, Roger...
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