root almighty

[David Reyes Samblas Martinez]

2009/5/19 Max <max at darim.com>:
> В Втр, 19/05/2009 в 09:21 +0200, David Reyes Samblas Martinez пишет:
>> Max, search on the list, for example in nabble[1], and you will find a
>> lot of pretty loooong threads disscussing this issue
>>
>> [1] http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html
>
> Tried to search it but found only small discussion on setting root
> password and using ssh key authorization for login instead of password.
> This definitely adds some security but to my mind running phone software
> which is actively communicating with outside world by definition under
> root account is still a huge problem.
>
> Would you point me to particular link to that discussion?
Hi Max, you are right it's no so evident to find that informantion, my fault
 I'm been quite long on the list and this topic has arised multiple
times  so I have the sensation this was a long topic but instead it
was spread in multiple threads.
here are some examples I have found, surely will be more

http://n2.nabble.com/running-om2008-as-normal-user-tc1366763ef1958.html#a1366763
http://n2.nabble.com/Re%3A-moko-running-everything-as-root-tp7782p7782.html
http://n2.nabble.com/MokSec---The-Security-Framework-tp518044p526912.html
http://n2.nabble.com/FSO-Taipei-agenda-tp1115805p1115969.html
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> Max.
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