On Wednesday 10 August 2005 2:46 pm, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
1. When you surf the web to download the new software, you could possibly get attacked by malicious web sites. The malicious code would then be executed with root priviledges and can do anything it likes.
Well okay, I'll explain one thing. I'm not sasying that I want to login as root for stuff like browsing the web. That's stupid, yeah, like Fred Miller wrote and for the reasons you have outlined. I only want to login graphically as root for running stuff like YaST Boot Loader Config, Partitioner etc.
You DON'T need to do that. Use Yast as a user, and give the root password. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time.