On 18/01/2011 06:22 πμ, Tim wrote: < snip > > SELinux is another of the protective measures on your system, A small comment here , actually SELinux is an NSA invention which is supposed to provide extra security to your system by controlling everything and everyone . > Being root doesn't mean that you should just be allowed to do > anything, Since i started this thread , let me clarify something . All i was trying to do was to open a pdf file simple as that and i do believe that on my computer am pretty much entitled to do so . > Made all the more worse when users start running things as root that > they don't really need to. Running Acrobat reader as root? Not a > good idea. Well i was logged in as root at the momment . What am i supposed to do ?? Logout and login back again just to run Acrobat Reader ????? I do believe that would be an overkill . > The whole idea of running as root, in general, is bad. No argument to that . It´s certainly more risky than login in as a normal user . Well i have been doing that for quite some time and until now it has been quite safe . Even in the worst case scenario that everything goes bad , all i would have to do is make a clean installation . There is no big deal to that , since my data are stored away from the system partitions . >The concept of trying to force something that's currently not working, by > switching to the root user to try and run it, isn't much better. > Well i wasn´t trying to force anything by switching to the root user . I wasn´t trying to force anything at all . I was just trying to open a manual ( a pdf file ) . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
