Apple Rackmounts

[Bill Humphries]

On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 02:13 PM, Bill Kearney wrote:

> You mean to run Frontier as something other than root, correct?  As in it'
> s
> generally considered a bad idea to run things like a web server as root.  
> Or am
> I missing someting here?

That's right, because you don't want a web-accessible application to do 
things as root: such as modify files. The idea is to be defensive against 
black hats exploiting holes in your CGIs, etc.

> What's the state of Mac OS X being able to run user sessions in different
> consoles, a la X windows?  I always found it quite disappointing that 
> Apple
> hasn't implemented this feature, one basic to unix machines since the 
> late 80's.
> I'm assuming most Mac OS X apps won't run in X windows, is that correct?

That's a question for the OS X development team.

-- whump