root user
Liam Proven
lproven at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 00:20:48 UTC 2012
On 1 January 2012 22:03, AV3 <arvimide at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> My mistake, deriving from the fact that I only use Mac OS and
> Ubuntu-on-a-Mac. I over-generalized from my limited experience. I thought
> that Unix was inherently more secure than Windows OS, whatever the reason.
It is.
> Am I wrong about that?
No.
> Why so, if not disabled root accounts?
*Because* of things like disabled root accounts, and having ordinary
accounts that cannot do things like install software without sudo-ing
to root!
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