On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 08:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:24:32 -0500 > Richard Shaw wrote: > > > The system-config* tools will prompt for > > root authentication if necessary > > Thousands and thousands of times in a row, in fact :-). > > I'm still waiting for someone to point me to the web page > documenting the actual case histories of horrible > things that happened because a GUI app was running > as root. (NOT the cases where people did stupid things > in GUIs, I want the one that describes people doing > perfectly normal safe operations who had horrible > things go wrong simply because they were running > a gui as root). You mean the cases where everything works correctly? If everything worked correctly and there were no bugs, and our systems weren't Internet-connected, and we understood the implications of everything we did, and we never typed or clicked on anything we didn't mean to, why would we need the concept of root? poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
