Hi! The security risks are: 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. 2. Graphical applications are way more complicated and so there is a higher chance that they could contain bugs. KDE is running a whole bunch of many high complex applications which are running in foreground or in background. Every bug of these applications running as root is able to do anything to your system what it likes. A handful of bytes written in the first few sectors of your harddisk and your partition table is broken and all your data is lost. 3. With a graphical user interface it's very easy to delete unwanted files. You mark some files with Ctrl, not seeing that some others were already marked, and deletion could erase unwanted files, too. As root, these files could be / or /etc or /data or /home or anything else, rendering your system completely useless and you have a loss of all you data in just a second. This is a very short list. This list could easily contain more that 50 entries if I would have time to think longer. So you are asking for all this commands in linux. If you are not that attracted to the command line, then why would you do that on the command line? All your files in your home directory can be managed with konqueror. What exactly do you want to do outside of that directory? If you tell me _exactly_ what you want to do, I'll try to tell you the linux way to do this. Best, Daniel Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 18:43 schrieb Shriramana Sharma:
Hallo und vielen Dank!
Daniel Eckl wrote:
Because it's a incredibly huge security risk and there is absolutely no single real reason why you would need to do this.
What's the security risk in logging into root via graphics that does not exist when logging into root via text?
Tell me why you thing you might need that and I'll try to give you a hint how to do that w/o logging in as root.
Well, how about all the functions in YaST? I've been using the Bootloader Config and the Partition Manager functions quite a lot.
And I'm still not into navigating the file system on Linux via Konsole (or any terminal). Tell me, please, the equivalent commands for the following DOS/Windows shell commands:
dir type md cd rd del copy edit cd.. d:
(an off-the-head sample, more may follow).
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Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org