From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 22 16:10:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ecis.com (ecis.ecis.com [207.201.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31C2155D9 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arch@ecis.com) Received: from Orion (ecis-dyn131.ecis.com [207.201.2.131]) by ecis.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA20406 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:10:41 -0700 From: avenger To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Logging in as root Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 16:02:43 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99082216103500.00824@Orion> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG While i am not dumb and dont log in as root always, every so often i need to log in as root for various things. what i am asking is, as root, do i open up any sort of security issue when connected online (i.e. some sort of a hole that will compromise my system) ? I dont run a firewall. Besides being dangerous to myself, can someone else mess with my system while i am root, or is the danger the same as logging in as a regular user? thanks Dan arch@ecis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message