Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 08:48 -0700, Craig White wrote:
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most people have the good sense not to run GUI as root
That makes GUI system administration tools kind of a dead
end, doesn't it? Odd that the installer runs X these days
too..
No, it doesn't. The GUI doesn't have to run with root privilege.
It can run as an ordinary front end to command line commands,
and prompt for the root password. Then it can run suid temporarily
only from time to time as necessary.
An installer and a running system connected to the 'net are two
different things.
Mike
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