On 1/17/11 9:22 PM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 01:11 +0200, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote: >> not to me mention that fact that am the root of the system ? Why canÂt >> it just back off and let me do what i want to do ? > And where would it stop? (At SELinux backing off instead of blocking.) > It's job is to stop bad things from happening, not to stand idly by and > let them. > > SELinux is another of the protective measures on your system, if you're > just going to override it, there's not much point having it there, at > all. > > Being root doesn't mean that you should just be allowed to do anything, > it's not as simple as that. You'd leave yourself open to all sorts of > "shooting yourself in the foot" problems. > > Made all the more worse when users start running things as root that > they don't really need to. Running Acrobat reader as root? Not a good > idea. > Actually, most programs now check if you are root and refuse to run. I know of at least one. Can the OP retry as a non-privileged user to see if this happens? James McKenzie -- 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
