Root with GUI

[Hugh Caley]

I don't know about your desktop, but Gnome in Fedora 12 is not 100% 
stable for me.  Imagine if some of those utilities were running as root 
... <<shudder>>

(To be fair, I love Gnome and am glad to be using it ... still, it's a 
big and difficult software suite; MUCH better if work as root is done 
using the more tested and stable non-GUI userland stuff).

IMHO.

Hugh

> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:41:51 -0400
> From: Tom Horsley<horsley1953 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Root with GUI
> To:users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Message-ID:<20100415124151.04ec7c7b at tomh.ccur.com>
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> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:42:46 +0800
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>    
>> >  At some point, they'd logout and later, next
>> >  day...after lunch, login as themselves and now have all sorts of
>> >  troubles they didn't have before.
>>      
> "It is possible for idiots to screw up", is not the same as
> an actual case history of some exploit hitting someone
> only because they were running a GUI app as root. I'm still
> waiting for the pointer to those case histories:-).
>    

-- 
Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator
Aldon Computer Group
6001 Shellmound St. Suite 600
Emeryville, CA 94608

(510) 285-8542 | hughc at aldon.com

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