On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 08:07 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > ---- > > of course that misses the point...since root running GUI is what is not > > recommended, thus root running beagle isn't tested. > There is a historical concept in unix that root can do anything. The > idea that he > shouldn't is a rather recent admission of bad/poorly tested programming and > the need for a workaround. ---- it's well known that the underlying philosophy of Linux and it's various software packages embrace a release early and often and yes, that precludes adequate testing - that is one of the points of Fedora...to provide a closer to the bleeding edge of software development. ---- > > The fact that you > > run GUI as root, knowing that it isn't tested, it isn't recommended and > > in the top 3 things not to do, and in spite of knowing all that, you > > choose to do it anyway suggests that advisories of any kind would be > > pointless. > Yes, many people use unix and unix-like systems for their consistency > over long > periods of time. Kernighan mostly got it right the first time with the > simple security > model and anything not fully backwards-compatible needs more than an > advisory warning about such breakage. ---- given the subject of beagle which is designed to crawl and index all available filesystems and file content makes it a rather poor candidate for superuser usage. The simple fact is that user space is still user space and root is not a normal user. Craig
