Re: Running Apps As Root Considered Unwise [re: # amule, distributed apps]
- In reply to: Valeri Galtsev : "Re: Running Apps As Root Considered Unwise [re: # amule, distributed apps]"
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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 01:44:06 UTC
On 2/8/23 8:41 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 2/8/23 6:44 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> On 2/8/23, Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> wrote: >>> root@marietto:/usr/home/marietto # amule >> >> Users should probably not be running random applications >> that they downloaded from the untrustable internet as root. > My apologies, I 100% agree with you, just managed to miss your mentioning "root". You are 100% right, and my comment below is irrelevant. Valeri > Wow, this sounds like an advise from MS world. In case of UNIX when user > was saying "I crashed the machine" I replied: you do not have admin/root > privileges. If something went wrong it is not your fault, but the fault > of the system, and my - sysadmin's - who didn't configure the system > secure enough, so regular user can not do damage to the system or work > of other users on the machine. > > Just my 2 cents. > > Valeri > >> Far too many exploits/bugs have happened that way around world. >> Use a VM or disposable, or remap IP ports, an unpriviledged user, etc. >> >> If people want to explore or make more ports, FreeBSD will compile >> and run many of the newer distributed sharing/filestorage/chat/crypto >> apps beyond amule too. Have fun :) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc >> https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=videos&iax=videos&q=voluntaryism >> https://odysee.com/@Anarchast:2 >> https://bitchute.com/ || https://rumble.com/ >> https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247