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Re: Connecting pc to pc

Fri, 07 May 2004 10:44

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Anyone who relys on Windoze for critical applications should be shot. Unless they have very good Windoze sysadmins (who are rarer than pubic hairs in a Nikki Webster concert).

Lol... so true, too true

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thechuckster wrote on Fri, 07 May 2004 00:34

As for the iTunes exploit being a 'serious risk'? (and i quote from the techworld forum) "...the extent of the damage would only extend as far as the user's privileges allow." where as all of the recent windows exploits (blaster, sasser, etc) result is administrative access to the system.

Don't users default to root priveliges in Macs?

no - that kind of security bungling is restricted to PCs running MS Operating systems Wink

Wink

the user setup when you install the OS is an adminstrative user - the root user is disabled until you use netinfo to authenticate and enable it for the local-machine-domain directory (netinfo is an ldap-like directory server).

note: even the admin user has to re-authenticate if it tries to install applications (actually, when attempting to write anywhere outside the users's home directory), or modify preferences not stored under the users home directory.

so the worst the MP3 exploit could do is trash stuff inside "/home/users/me" - hardly the world's worst security risk?

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