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Not everything needs to run as root.
by pnutjam 7y ago
Not everything needs to run as root.
- frou_dh 7y agoIt's all running as john
- OJFord 7y ago$ pkgman install hip2019pretty-ls $ su sandboxeduser prettyls ... nobody does that. Sure daemons might run as different user(s), but on ~100% of developer machines, the logged in user launches a shell as themself, and runs programs in that shell as themself.
- pnutjam 7y agoNobody can make you use account isolation, but you should.
- swebs 7y agoOk, but your private keys are stored in your home directory. No root access required.
- otachack 7y agoFor sure, but does applying a password on pub-priv key creation encrypt it? Haven't tried it myself yet but may later when I'm back at my computer.
- mikorym 7y agoYes, if you use OpenSSL it will ask if you want to encrypt with a password. You can verify this by just opening the file in a text editor and you'll see that the contents are obfuscated via that password.
- eikenberry 7y agoBut they are encrypted and so are of no use to anyone.