On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 11:37 -0500, C3PO wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > > > > Sounds like as good a way of getting pwned as any. At least with 'su' or > > better, 'sudo', you'll know exactly when root access is at risk. > > > You can either store password with FAR > There's an avoidable risk for a start: None of my login passwords, let alone those for root, are written down anywhere. That includes not holding them as data in scripts, config files or literals in programs. With the way of working you seem to be describing it seems to me entirely too easy to leave a root access path open by mistake when you should not have done so. Worse yet, by using a Wine app for cross-user access you're just providing a highway for Windows malware to spread from your own sandbox into other user's space or into root. > As to the usability - can you give any reason why MC won't show > different commands > Wouldn't have a clue: I don't use it and don't use Nautilus all that much either. Neither do anything I can't to quicker and better via one or more terminal windows regardless of what machine I happen to be running stuff on. Graphical displays? Years ago I enabled X11 forwarding for ssh and have propagated that configuration forward through the last 15 Fedora versions. So it doesn't matter which host I start a graphical program on: I see its GUI on the screen in front of me. In any case, if you're serious about running graphical programs on remote hosts you're probably better off using VNC. Have you looked at that yet? Martin
