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<blockquote data-quote="dr_springfield" data-source="post: 42257"><p>That's because you are the administrator of the system. Which is most likely what you intended by logging in as root. Regardless, that has absolutely nothing to do with being ONLINE as root, and nothing to do with the behavior of the system to a remote attacker/exploit. Again, the system IS able to handle more than one user's access at a time. So even though the root user might be able to change system files without a prompt, that doesn't mean that a remote attacker can waltz onto your box and be granted root permissions!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dr_springfield, post: 42257"] That's because you are the administrator of the system. Which is most likely what you intended by logging in as root. Regardless, that has absolutely nothing to do with being ONLINE as root, and nothing to do with the behavior of the system to a remote attacker/exploit. Again, the system IS able to handle more than one user's access at a time. So even though the root user might be able to change system files without a prompt, that doesn't mean that a remote attacker can waltz onto your box and be granted root permissions! [/QUOTE]
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