Arnt Gulbrandsen:
> By now, the concept of unprivileged local users is a little obsolete
> anyway.

Yes, unless you let your kids or some guests use your computer.

> Today, hosts generally serve only one unix user, there
> generally is only one local user of one host, and that local user is
> the user that owns everything valuable. So is the a real point to
> local-user-to-root exploits? I suppose there is, but it is much smaller
> than it was ten or twenty years ago.

The problem is not the local user == the owner, instead it is an
unknown breaking in as a local user and then gaining root powers.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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