> I'd suggest that anyone who sets up a system without any user > accounts _and_ somehow needs a GUI to configure the system > _and_ can't manage to figure out the settings to change so > they can login as root should probably not be pretending to > be a competent administrator. I guess the last part is not correct - he *can* login as root, but *can not* run Konqueror as root ... that's a difference oh, and also the original post was not about installing without ordinary user accounts well, but this is not the point - the point is, that someone who supposes he's smarter than the others just disables a possibility for the others please, stop protecting other people from themselves - if they want to risk being hurt, just let them get hurt ... I've got a usecase - what about using Konqueror to configure CUPS what is the security difference between doing $ su - # konqueror localhost:631 and $ konqueror localhost:631 <supply root password to konqueror when asked for> ? in the first case, if the attacker gets in control of Konqueror, he can do rm -rf / directly; in the latter, he can capture root password ... which may (or may not) be more valuable > Are there not enough examples from Windows of why it's a > terrible idea to run with full administrator privileges -- > especially software like web browsers? I do not think that using Windows as an argument is worth here and do not forget that Konqueror is also a file browser, not just web browser (oh, does everyone really has to do "cd /etc; vi someconfigfile" in the text console?) K. -- Karel Volný QE BaseOs/Daemons Team Red Hat Czech, Brno tel. +420 532294274 (RH: +420 532294111 ext. 8262074) xmpp kavol@xxxxxxxxx :: "Never attribute to malice what can :: easily be explained by stupidity."
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