On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:25:47AM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > >Most of my files/folders are owned by root. It's starting to seem like >that's not such a great idea because a few of the programs that I use >don't like you to be root when you run them. > >So I'm thinking that I should start recursively changing the ownership >of my files to the local user, as I'm the only user of this computer >anyways. I'm not sure if I said what I said correctly, but is changing >my ownership drastically like this a good idea? Isn't it bad to have >so many files owned by root? If my system got compromised then they >could do whatever. >
You should only run root when you need to run root, and your umask should be conservative. You should probably read harden-doc although realize that it is a little out of date. You should _never_ run the xserver as root. Run as a normal user and use su (or some such) to become root only as needed. Are these files/folders in /root? If so, the easiest way would be to, as root, move them into your normal user's home directory then do a chown -R user.user on the whole directory. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
