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From: Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Single user linux
To: mhaque@haque.net (Mohammad A. Haque)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:18:34 +0100 (BST)
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> 
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ian Stirling wrote:
> 
> > Also, there is another reason.
> > If you'r logged in as root, then any exploitable bug in large programs,
> > be it netscape, realplayer, wine, vmware, ... means that the
> > cracker owns your machine.
<snip>
> Heh. You receive all your email on your root account?

Nope. 
For historical reasons (I gave out this address before I started using
linux) and mail to root here does not actually go to root.

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