On running gui applications as root

[Reindl Harald]

Am 17.11.2015 um 19:04 schrieb Joonas Sarajärvi:
> 2015-11-17 19:56 GMT+02:00 Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>:
>> Doesn't most proprietary software come with GUI installers?
>
> No idea if "most" are, but at least I have seen many proprietary
> programs that do not require a GUI in installation.
>
> Also in many cases where there is a GUI installer, it works just fine
> as a normal user and running it without root privileges could be
> considered somewhat safer. You would at least know if it tries to
> clobber your config files under /etc or your libraries and programs
> under /usr

depends on what the application is supposed to do and if you want a 
global setup instead only in the userhome for every user

installing in your userhome has another disadvantage: you are running 
all day long a application writeable by your user and so there is a risk 
that another arbitary process modifies it

installing the application as root is a one time risk but after that the 
binaries are protected against modifying

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