Tim: >> Compared to logging in graphically as root leaves you >> much more open to security flaws in the graphical systems doing much >> more than you were doing. Tom Horsley: > Ah yes, here it is again - GUIS are horribly flawed and > ridden through with security bugs. No... Complex things are more likely to have problems than less complex things, GUI or not. There's an *awful* lot more running when X is concerned, and it's had quite a lot of security issues that haven't been resolved, and probably won't, as the resolution for them (that does actually work) has been don't use X with more privileges than needed. Then there's just the plain not security, but still risky problems with using GUIs with no restrictions on them. > If that is really the case, then no one should be logging into > any GUI at all for any reason since you'll be exposing your > own data to all those security kooties waiting to leap out > of the GUIs on them. That silly argument was put forward about a week ago, and the stupidities were shot down in flames in the next reply or two. Following messages in this thread really generated into ludicrous rants against anything that takes a sensible measure to prevent users doing stupid things with their computer. You don't do your standing any good by arguing that it's a good idea to make it easy for people do stupid things, nor that you want to do stupid things. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
