Re: [Hampshire] Linux.Lion worm

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Author: Alan Pope
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Linux.Lion worm
2008/10/10 Simon Huggins <huggie@???>:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:49AM +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
>> also a bit of a worry are the new little laptops which are almost
>> embedded devices, they tend to run everything as root.
>
> Really? Which ones? I'm told the eeePC doesn't for instance.
>


The eee uses sudo, and doesn't prompt for a password though.

Cheers,
Al.