owl-users - Re: Owl-based desktop environment

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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 03:26:02 +0400
From: Grigoriy Strokin <grg@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Owl-based desktop environment

Dmitry,

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:08:28AM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> 
> Owl-2.0 is closer to RHEL4 and FC3 from compatibility point of view.
> 
[...]
> I would say that user->root privilege escalation is not secure in general,
> no matter how do you gain privs.  Consider login as privileged user using
> new virtual console.


Thanks for your suggestions, I will follow them :-)


-- 
Grigoriy.