Re: Linux Security: What it is ?

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"???? ?????? \"Wah Java !!\"" on Sunday 26 Mar 2006 09:40 wrote:

> As its doc says, "If no USER is given, the default is 'root', the
> super-user.", it seems that author's aim of su program when no USER is
> provided is to become super-user, but he has assumed that super-user was
> always 'root'. Won't you consider it a bad programming practise.

No, because that's the standard convention used across most unix flavors.


Ritesh
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