On Friday 09 May 2003 14:18 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 09 May 2003 19:57, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Please do not use xhost! It is completely insecure and defeats the purpose of using sux or kdesu
And if it's a single user machine? Or even a small home network?
Then it's not so bad, but it's still a good habit to get into.
(And I use root all the time too but I'm a big boy and trust myself)
literally all the time? I would never trust myself that much. Everyone has brainfarts.
I run KDE as a user, so Kmail and browsers, etc run as a normal user. But I always have xterm windows around and they run as root. Never had a problem. Remember, when DOS was king, everyone ran as root and accidents didn't happen that often. (and any accidents that did occur were usually due to stupidity as in: "gee I didn't know that I shouldn't have deleted that file!")
And I would certainly not trust the programs, especially huge ones like kde, to run them all the time as root.
I'm not sure SuSE will even let you run KDE as root. I tried once and it gave me this very ugly red background with a big warning. I took the hint... :-) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 05/09/03 14:25 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "You might be a high-tech Red-neck if: your lap-top computer costs more than your car"