Root with GUI

[Tim]

On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 12:21 +0000, hewjr1000 at gmail.com wrote:
> How do I make myself root in the GUI

If you have to ask that, we have to ask are you ready to do that?

Any SysAdmin who knows what they're doing would be reticent to do that,
or to recommend doing that, would strongly advise not doing that, and
should be competent enough to research how to do it without asking for
help.

In all seriousness, I would never make any suggestion to the incompetent
(general comment to all, not specifically aimed at you) to run as root
unless they absolutely have to (which they usually don't).  The damage
you can do to yourself is bad enough, but the damage you can do to
others is really annoying.  e.g. All the junk mail, and other internet
crap, we all have to put up with that is spewed out from owned boxes.
Most of that stuff doesn't come from some spammer using their own
computer, it comes from masses of other computers that they've hijacked,
one way or another.  Don't make it easy for them.

Learn FIRST the principle of least privilege.  The more people who
adhere to that principle, the better it is for EVERYONE else.

There are a few people who will advocate "use root, don't give a damn
about any criticism about it."  Personally, I think they're twits, and
some (*) of them are evil.  I regard those who evangelise dropping your
defences with suspicion, not just scepticism.

* They're actively trying to get other people to set up computers in a
way that they can take advantage of.

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2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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