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<font face="sans-serif">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>><br>
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(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).<br>
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IMHO.<br>
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Hugh<br>
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:41:51 -0400
From: Tom Horsley <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
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Subject: Re: Root with GUI
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:42:46 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>At some point, they'd logout and later, next
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>day...after lunch, login as themselves and now have all sorts of
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>troubles they didn't have before.
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<pre wrap="">"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 <span
class="moz-smiley-s1" title=":-)"><span>:-)</span></span>.
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator
Aldon Computer Group
6001 Shellmound St. Suite 600
Emeryville, CA 94608
(510) 285-8542 | <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hughc@aldon.com">hughc@aldon.com</a>
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