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Subject: Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?
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> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:47:52 -0800
> From: Jay Chandler <chandler@chapman.edu>
> Subject: Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?
> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>,	VeeJay
> 	<maanjee@gmail.com>
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> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2007-01-10 13:24, VeeJay <maanjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi
> >> How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?
> >>     
> >
> > Depending on local setup, this could range from 'not at all' to
> > 'extremely'.  Do you have a *specific* setup in mind?
> >
> >   
> Standard user with the root password, a bag of explosives, a .45 magnum, 
> and a chip on his shoulder, say?

Yeah, and even a user with no account or password, a screwdriver, and
a Mountain Dew.

Jim