On Wednesday 29 May 2002 3:15 pm, krenshala wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:09:41PM -0400, ben heise was heard to say: > > what are ya'll doing about this? what if a player gets disgruntled and > > hacks your *nix box in a red rage? or a hacker uses your computer for > > evil instead of good? or a crack crazed herd of elephants tramples thru > > your living room and breaks the computer? > > > > well....maybe not that extreme. > > > > but I was wondering what others had done on this topic. > > ... don't run teh mud as root ... LOL, yes. Give it a user acct that is disabled, give it write access to ONLY its dir, maybe even put it in a chroot jail... -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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