On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 08:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:24:32 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote:
The system-config* tools will prompt for root authentication if necessary
Thousands and thousands of times in a row, in fact :-).
I'm still waiting for someone to point me to the web page documenting the actual case histories of horrible things that happened because a GUI app was running as root. (NOT the cases where people did stupid things in GUIs, I want the one that describes people doing perfectly normal safe operations who had horrible things go wrong simply because they were running a gui as root).
You mean the cases where everything works correctly? If everything worked correctly and there were no bugs, and our systems weren't Internet-connected, and we understood the implications of everything we did, and we never typed or clicked on anything we didn't mean to, why would we need the concept of root?
poc