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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/20/2013 06:20 AM, Patrick
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Tom
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<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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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.
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<div class="gmail_extra">IIRC most comments are about not
running the desktop itself as root, rather than specific apps.<br>
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You mean like lowering inittab to 3, logging in as root, then
running startx so you can get the full root gui experience?<br>
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