Re: Running Apps As Root Considered Unwise [re: # amule, distributed apps]

From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev_at_kicp.uchicago.edu>
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 :)
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