Can we add these lines to root's .orbitrc?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Feb 7 21:36:33 GMT 2007


On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:18:52PM +0100, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The running-at-spi-over-sudo fix has been long in coming. See: 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163132 for history and details.
> 
> It seems that most parts are in place in Feisty now, except for two 
> lines that need adding to root's .orbitrc
> 
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> ORBIIOPUNIX=0
> 
> Can we do this? Are there technical or security issues relating to this? 
> Who should I talk to, who maintains root in Ubuntu? ;)

Packages should never rely on a stock per-user configuration in order to
work properly.  If these defaults are necessary when running as root, then
the appropriate programs or libraries should change their defaults when
invoked as root.  

-- 
 - mdz



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