RE: Lindows Issues

["McAllister, Andrew" <McAllisterA () umsystem edu>]

An article in InfoWorld yesterday said that the Lindows user defaults to root privs (if not actually root). I don't 
have a copy to verify, maybe you can? That alone seems like enough of a security problem to me.

Andrew McAllister
University of Missouri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sec daddy [mailto:secdaddyb () yahoo com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 9:51 AM
> To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
> Subject: Lindows Issues
>
>
> Has anyone done research on the security of Lindows? 
> There appear to be application level exploits with MS
> programs that run on Lindows, consistent with Windows.
>  I'm more curious about O/S level exploits.
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