kwallet vs kmail, will somebody please shoot one of them?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Nov 21 17:47:54 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 17:40 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Still correct :-) If it doesn't work for root, who then is it going to
> > work for?
>
> Very often, "anyone else".
>
> Many applications assume that they will be run by normal users. Some I'm
> aware of include:
> * NFS by default (without the no_root_squash option) gives root very
> little permission to do anything;
>
> * xscreensaver won't lock the screen when run as root
> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#root-lock ;
>
> * postfix won't deliver e-mail to root users (it expects to forward it
> to a normal user account);
>
> Many programs will change their behaviour if they find that they are
> running with root privileges.
>
> If you want to have the intended user experience, log in as a real
> user...
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you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink it is the
adage.
Craig
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