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Re: Net-access thru root account

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:23:32PM -0800, Siddharth Seth wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I always access the net thru my root account despite
>learning that there r some security issues involved.
>Its better to be hacked and be sorry than safe ;) 
---end quoted text---
well alot can go wrong
like if u run services like icq or napster
then u culd give em root access to all the 
things in the box


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