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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