Re: Ownership

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On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:48:27PM -0500, morpheus wrote:
> Yes, "su -" with no "r"  It was late...
> The big reason you are advised not to run anything as root is that you
> have the ability to really screw things up.  If you really want to use a
> GUI file manager and you are careful, and you make sure to close it down
> when you're finished, I don't see a problem.

Another big reason is that it keeps misbehaving applications from screwing
things up too. Maybe there's a security bug in one of the multiple libraries
linked into your GUI file manager, and when you click on some untested
downloaded file as root, surprise, it's got a exploit. This is much less
likely to happen with cp, mv, or rm.

(ldd /usr/bin/nautilus|wc -l; ldd /bin/mv|wc -l)


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