[royeo]

I have Fedora 8 and version 3.5.10 of Konqueror.

I often use Konqueror in super user mode rather than go to the root account. But I can't notice any difference between when it's in super user mode and when it's not.

If there is something that signifies the difference, please somebody tell me. Otherwise, is there something I can do to make it distinguishable?

Thank you,

royeo

[lotuseclat79]

Hi royeo,

By surfing in super user mode aka root account access, you are asking for trouble. Launching Konqueror from either root account or with su or sudo will do it.

To make yourself less of a target for a rootkit attack, launch Knoqueror from a regular user account. That will make it much more difficult for any malware that can get past your firewall (all it takes is a malformed packet) to get root access and do damage to your system like replace the executables with same named malware versions.

--- Tom

P.S. Download and install both chkrootkit and rkhunter which both search for rootkits on a Linux system, and Clam AV (free) as well.

[rob.rice]

try to look at /root
only root can even look at /root no body else can

[lotuseclat79]

Hi royeo,

Have a look at the man page for the command whoami: $ man whoami

Then issue the command:
$ whoami

-- Tom