Re: Root with GUI

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two questions....

can you point to articles where a user as root was using an IRC client
and got zombified??

and 2, are you guys saying that gnome in fedora 11/12 doesn't allow a
user to log in as the root user?

thanks



On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Richard Shaw:
>>> The system-config* tools will prompt for
>>> root authentication if necessary
>
> Tom Horsley:
>> Thousands and thousands of times in a row, in fact :-).
>
> Not here.  Once you've authenticated, that info is cached for a few
> minutes, and automatically renewed as you keep on doing things as root.
> And, if you are going to be idle for a while, you can manually extend
> the period without having to type in the password again (there's an icon
> in the task bar where you can renew/release it).
>
>> I'm still waiting for someone to point me to the web page
>> documenting the actual case histories of horrible
>> things that happened because a GUI app was running
>> as root. (NOT the cases where people did stupid things
>> in GUIs, I want the one that describes people doing
>> perfectly normal safe operations who had horrible
>> things go wrong simply because they were running
>> a gui as root).
>
> Yeah, well, the *usual* thing that cause problems is - the user stays
> logged in as root, does all their work as root, all *their* files are
> owned by root, so they have to keep on logging in as root to use their
> files.  They paint themselves into a corner, then use that to justify
> why they "need" to be root.
>
> If you want further ideas about what goes wrong, go back through the
> list and look at some of Gene's posts.  He runs as root, and comes a
> cropper over it, often enough.
>
> Traditionally IRC (as root) users have their problems, it's just making
> it easy for them to become a zombie.
>
> --
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>
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>
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