I don't usually, but... 10056
Kier I was out of state this past weekend attending a ceremony. We were over some relatives and my brother-in-law asked me to take a...
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:25:39 +0000, Rich Bell
Most distros of Linux are more consistent between each other than versions of Windows are between themselves. Consider that you could take a driver from an x86 Mandriva system and use it on an x86 Debian system. Can the same be said for a driver on Win98 and WinXP? Nope.
Tell me, privates, even if this unlikely situation were to occur, how exactly would a process running with user privs start deleting stuff that this user doesn't even have write privs to?
Which are subsequently fixed before there is even talk of an active exploit. And again, how is a process running with user privs going to delete or modify a file it doesn't have write access to?
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10608 Jul 30 03:04usr-lib-mozilla-firefox-firefox rm: cannot remove `-usr-lib-mozilla-firefox-firefox': Permission denied
Yeah, right. Tell you what, launch IE and browse to astalavista or your favorite love site and tell us about it afterwards, ok?
-- rapskat - 00:51:18 up 13 days, 10:06, 9 users, load average: 0.05, 0.36, 0.55 "Where do you think you're going today?"
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