On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote: > > You'd rather it did what KDE does and not drop privs at all, running > > arbitrary eye-candy sub-processes as root? > > They can't be trusted to run as root? Can they be trusted to be run as > any user at all? KDE doesn't support setuid usage, nor does gtk+. Its a sensible policy anyway.