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[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 13.10.2004, 00:20 -0700 schrieb Daniel Robitaille:
> I have always had problem with this concept in Unix/Linux.  I always
> thought it was more intiutive from a user point of view if I wasn't
> able to  erase a file since I don't own it.  The action or being able
> to erase or not a file shouldn't be dependent on its directory's
> permissions but solely on the file permission itself.
you probably have no problem with linux/unix, rather with the insecure
concept other operating systems have taught you ;-)
it's never good to run X applications in "god mode", imagine running
nautilus as root, just open the /usr/share/pixmaps dir and you'll have a
hidden dir on your filesystem with all the thumbnails in it....plenty of
wasted space a user never has access to because it's owned by root.
more worse: you drag and drop your passwd file by accident from /etc to
anywhere you didn't recognize ...... if you logout then you're lost :)

the consensus is this simple:
never ever run any X app as root, except it's absolutely necessary
(which should never happen).

there once was a patch in debian which made it impossible to run mozilla
as root, probably a thing to consider for the future....

don't blame the app, don't blame yourself either, blame the company that
made operating systems insecure all over the world and taught you this
behavior.

;-)

ciao
	oli

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