On 6/8/20 6:55 PM, jdow wrote:
The latest one is a java based exploit that hits both Linux and
Windows. It was announced within the past week. CERT is a good place
to go looking for exploits. Running as root for system maintenance
makes sense. Running as root routinely day after day is asking for
problems. Perhaps the worst malware that exists is the interface
between the screen and the keyboard making a typo or a thinko.
I think the "problem" has been, by this time, done to death, but from
what I'm reading on the Kubuntu list, I think the latest rev may
have restored a version of Dolphin--perhaps under a different name--that
accesses a root environment. (I have in my records a
means of creating this situation on an old PCLOS version. I don't know
if it would work in a modern environment.) OpenSUSE's KDE provides
Dolphin PLUS a separate app that looks and works like Dolphin, but has
root access after you supply a password.
Now to the question for you: CERT seems to mean Community Emergency
Response Team. Is this what you mean, or am I (probably)
missing something?
--doug, WA2SAY
{^_^}
On 20200608 10:54:21, Tom Horsley wrote:
I keep asking for people to point me to the huge list
of exploits that certainly must exist given all the
horrors expressed about running as root.
No one has ever been able to tell me where to find it.
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