<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Tom Horsley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:horsley1953@gmail.com" target="_blank">horsley1953@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:35:45 -0300<br>
Germán A. Racca wrote:<br>
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> Anyway, it is safer to use something like VIM to edit files as root, I<br>
> only tested gedit because I saw your email, but as root I use only VIM<br>
> to edit files :)<br>
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</div>This again? Please give a link to the giant list of exploits<br>
that have actually happened because someone ran a GUI program<br>
as root. I keep seeing this warning, yet no one has ever<br>
provided an actual example of any kind of root exploit happening.<div class="yj6qo ajU"><div id=":j3" class="ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="ajT" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></blockquote>
</div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">IIRC most comments are about not running the desktop itself as root, rather than specific apps.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">poc<br></div></div>