Re: Cancel session shutdown

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Chipzz wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Xavier Claessens wrote:
>
> > I writing a xchat plugin to provide a dbus service. The goal is to have
> > external applications that can talk to xchat and do everything a xchat
>
> An often used argument when comparing windows to linux is that even if a
> hacker was able to run an exploit on a linux system, he would in most
> cases only be able to do things as the user (not as root). This kind of
> plugin makes me wonder how much damage a hacker could do as a user...

Everything in the scenario (dbus, xchat) is running as the user...

Havoc