f20 - gedit

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/20/2013 06:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:horsley1953 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:35:45 -0300
>     Germán A. Racca wrote:
>
>     > Anyway, it is safer to use something like VIM to edit files as
>     root, I
>     > only tested gedit because I saw your email, but as root I use
>     only VIM
>     > to edit files :)
>
>     This again? Please give a link to the giant list of exploits
>     that have actually happened because someone ran a GUI program
>     as root. I keep seeing this warning, yet no one has ever
>     provided an actual example of any kind of root exploit happening.
>
>
>
> IIRC most comments are about not running the desktop itself as root, 
> rather than specific apps.

You mean like lowering inittab to 3, logging in as root, then running 
startx so you can get the full root gui experience?

:)


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