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Cleanliness next to Rootliness
Daniel Hanson, 2005-04-27

Linspire's arguments to only run a desktop system as root has everything to do with privilege seperation, privilege escalation, and some design choices made along the way.

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Cleanliness next to Rootliness 2005-04-28
josh
Well said Daniel! I agree with you and would go so far as to say that if Linspire insists on continuing with their current policy of user access that they will go through the same learning process that Microsoft has gone through and learn that separation of privilege is an incredible benefit to sec...

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