[CS-FSLUG] Five Linux Security Myths You Can Live Without

[Fred A. Miller]

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 12:01 am, Don Parris wrote:

[snip]

> Does SP2 lock down the filesystem?  I mean, on my system at work
> (shared with 3 others), everyone has write access to the system
> folders by default.  I can't do that as a regular Joe on SUSE Linux
> (nor any of the others I've tried, for that matter).  On a Win system,
> anyone with regular user privileges can write a big bad virus anywhere
> they want (assuming they've gotten access to a regular user login).
> By my understanding, they might mess up the regular GNU user's
> account, but can't necessarily get past that without gaining root
> access.
>
> Any input here?

No, it DOESN'T! 'Depends on where and how the boxen are setup as to degree of 
risk, but it's NOT secure.

Fred

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