Effectively the resource must be freely access ... <br>but it could be a good idea that to protect system file from a mistake of the default user.<br><br>After all, on our desktop, most of us are single user but very few log on directly on root account.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 11, 2008 1:56 PM, Schmidt András <<a href="mailto:asch@freemail.hu">asch@freemail.hu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In my opinion there is nothing that the root account can protect on a<br>single user handheld device.<br>Phones are normally used single user.<br>When an application gets the rights for that user then it can access all<br>
personal information and all network resources (Wifi, GSM network). What<br>else remains? What resource would you protect with the root account?<br><font color="#888888"><br>SA<br></font><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Nick Guenther wrote:
<br>> On Jan 10, 2008 2:58 PM, Denis <<a href="mailto:shulyaka@gmail.com">shulyaka@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Are user applications and GUI run as root? If yes, is it safe? What is<br>>> the root password in OpenMoko, by the way?
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