From: Joel Rees <joel.r...@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. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/E1VRPE1-0000me-8w@dalton.invalid
