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homeblend

Member

Registered: 2011-04-04

Posts: 4

Root

So I've spent a little bit of time with puppy linux and have learned that they always run as root!! Well I have been a linux user for over half a decade and have always thought this is a massive security risk. Their community doesn't seem to agree. I have searched for compromised puppy systems. Nothing! And many run puppy on their hard drives, so its not because its used as a live disk.

Why is it so wrong to run as root then? (and I don't mean protection from the user, as I have done a lot of damage over the years using sudo )

litemotiv

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Root

There is already a topic about this, please continue there: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=123203

Closed for duplication.

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