[Tutor] Interacting with stderr

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29Aug2014 18:35, Crush <crushed26 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 29, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
>> One other thing: if you can avoid running commands as root, I'd
>> strongly suggest doing so.  Your second screenshot shows that you're
>> running as root superuser, and the imaginary security demon that sits
>> on my left shoulder is laughing uproariously as we speak.
>
>Haha Yes I am aware of people like you who are just itching to exploit vulnerabilities like that; however, the programs my company uses to broadcast will only run as root.

That's a really bad design decision, and rarely necessary. It is often _easy_, 
but it leaves your systems at much greater risk.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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