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<blockquote data-quote="dr_springfield" data-source="post: 42198"><p>That is assuming you were to execute malicious code as root. But you could execute malicious code if you were online or not. If a hacker attacked your system, he would not automatically obtain the same access privileges you have. If a hacker was able to successfully "hack" your system, most likely he would have root contol regardless of whatever other users were on the system with root. People are online as root all the time on hundreds of thousands of *nix systems all over the world without batting an eye. A myriad of applications must have root permissions to even run correctly, while online. If there was an operating system where there could only be one level of access at any one time, I would recommend to the users of that operating system, that they should not be online as root. Since this is not the case with Mac OS X, the subject of the forum, I think it's a pointless suggestion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dr_springfield, post: 42198"] That is assuming you were to execute malicious code as root. But you could execute malicious code if you were online or not. If a hacker attacked your system, he would not automatically obtain the same access privileges you have. If a hacker was able to successfully "hack" your system, most likely he would have root contol regardless of whatever other users were on the system with root. People are online as root all the time on hundreds of thousands of *nix systems all over the world without batting an eye. A myriad of applications must have root permissions to even run correctly, while online. If there was an operating system where there could only be one level of access at any one time, I would recommend to the users of that operating system, that they should not be online as root. Since this is not the case with Mac OS X, the subject of the forum, I think it's a pointless suggestion. [/QUOTE]
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