Re: dangerous to leave root logged in?
From: Alvaro G. M. (agm_at_hazent.com)
Date: 03/29/05
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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:45:32 +0200
hans_schulze98@yahoo.de wrote:
>
> Right... There's one linux box on my desk here. And one monitor.
> Whoever uses it sits in front of it. There's a different X server for
> each user, so they don't disturb each other. Naturally, none of them is
> supposed to disturb root or vice versa. Hence root's stuff runs on an X
> server of its own. More precisely, an X server run with a dummy account
> whose sole purpose it is to su into root or to run root stuff. And my
> question is whether it is safe to leave that dummy X with root stuff
> running all the time.
O_O
So, you mean that an X server is running root xterm and other processes in a
machine which grants local access to other users?
And what's stopping that other users to switch to the X server of any
other user, root one's included?
You don't want to do that, really.
-- Alvaro G. M. _CN_
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