From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4723BCC1.7090908@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:33:37 -0600 From: don bailey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070816) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] security References: <4723B9AD.8090308@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: dbdd8a72-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > OS X has root: > Yes, I understand that MacOSX has root. Say I own a laptop and noone else uses said laptop. Am I going to suid and store all my private files as root or another user? No, most likely not. I'll store all my files as myself because it's convenient. Therefore, someone does not have to compromise root to compromise the entire box, since the assets on the entire box are really limited to my account. Make sense? :-) D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHI7y/yWX0NBMJYAcRAk2QAJ9Sgx6pQfwGJf7JwKk516lW5NgH4wCgjwdQ puXIgYoJOTnTZsCUaplwI8w= =Fj1T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----