Ticket #558 (closed enhancement: invalid)
Most processes running as root?!
| Reported by: | gregory.fowler@… | Owned by: | mickey |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Distro | Version: | unspecified |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | buglog@…, john_lee@… | Blocked By: | |
| Blocking: | Estimated Completion (week): | ||
| HasPatchForReview: | no | PatchReviewResult: | |
| Reproducible: |
Description
I noticed in a screen shot of "ps" pretty much all processes (including X) were
all running as root.
As I'm sure you know, this is bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
Running everything as root is a perfect way for exploits/virusus to get a hold
of these devices.
It defeats the secure nature of Linux.
Please make it so there is a normal use to run as many things as possible!
Change History
comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by mickey@…
- Severity changed from major to enhancement
Reflagging as enhancement. I agree it's a major potential problem, but not a bug.
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by audriusa@…
- Severity changed from enhancement to normal
Well, I would say, it is a bug.
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by audriusa@…
- Version changed from unspecified to 2007.2
Setting the version number 2007.2
comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by mickeyl
- Priority changed from high to normal
- Version changed from 2007.2 to unspecified
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
comment:9 Changed 5 years ago by zecke
- Component changed from Applications & Dependencies to Distro
Move it to distro even if I doubt the secure nature of linux. :)
comment:10 Changed 4 years ago by mickey
- Status changed from new to closed
- HasPatchForReview unset
- Resolution set to invalid
I acknowledge it's a problem, but a proper fix will have to be deployed in OpenEmbedded?. Therefore I'm closing this as 'WONTFIX' here and hoping you will open a bug upstream at bugs.openembedded.net. Please continue pestering us (in OE) to fix this.
We are aware of that problem, but the resolution may take some time. ONce the
the dbus service level architecture has been implemented (next year), most of
the infrastructure should be in place.