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? 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. 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. -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org