Better drama than most SOAPS. Almost as good as the List at Apache.org, now those Apache guys will knife you in a heartbeat for asking tupid kwestions - *Read the manual tupid* - all the answers are there, etc. That´s why Amazon is a saviour and Apache and their List has passed into a tupid memory. Great reading guys, keep it up. I´m learning more each minute - seriously. Al Engle Suse Wannabe - Windows for Business Apps -----Original Message----- From: Mike McMullin [mailto:mwmcmlln@mnsi.net] Sent: jueves, 11 de agosto de 2005 23:38 To: suse-kde@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-kde] Latest KDE disables graphical login as root? On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 08:00 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Paul Foerster wrote:
Nothing personal here, but it's people like you, who do not know or understand why logging into KDE as root has serious security implications who definitely need it disabled!
Sigh. I fully understand that I'm not supposed to play Frozen Bubble as root. I only wanted to know what's wrong with running a graphical environment as root. Does that need to come under so much heat from you techies?
We're not all techies here. Rarely do you as a user need full root priviledges, when you do then you use root, and sparingly. This is really more of a security thing. Root has full unrestricted access to the whole system, and none of those nice "Hey dummy are you sure you want to do that?" warnings when you decide to nuke your / and everything in it.
Come on guys, cut me some slack. I'm not a geek like you - I'm an academic whose field is totally unconnected with Linux - help me out here. I'm trying to shift from Windoze to Linux, and if I ask a simple
question out of my ignorance, you people start using words like "Why would you want to do something as STUPID as that?". If a small kiddie asks you why it's not safe to open the door to someone you don't know,
do you shout at him and say "Why would you want to do something as STUPID as that?" At least *I* would explain to him that people we don't know can do bad things to us, and so it's not okay to open the door to them.
Education is no excuse for ignorance. <just kidding.> It's not only those we don't know, it also us. Running as a user, the only vulnerable things are those that I have access to, which normally is located somewhere in /home/Mike, and not in any of the other <user> profiles.
So I did learn something from asking this question: that X11 has a lot of security implications. But I would have liked to learn it without getting reprimanded for my ignorance.
Your partially right, it's not just X though, it's root, and that is the something thing to keep in mind. -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help@suse.com Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e