root has less menus

ubuntu at rio.vg ubuntu at rio.vg
Wed Jun 7 19:09:31 UTC 2006


Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 16:41, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
>> Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>> Mehdi Hassanpour wrote:
>>>> I've enabled root user for login to Gnome but why root has less
>>>> menus than the admin user ?
>>> Why do you need to login to Gnome as root? Don't.
>> I've found it useful to do so on occasion.  I have my /home
>> partition as an encrypted loopfs.  Every now and then I like to
>> back it up, which means unmounting/unlooping, which means I need to
>> login without /home. It's much easier to simply login as root to X
>> than go through the hassle of changing the runlevel and
>> rebooting...
> 
> Much easier to create a new regular user whose home dir is /tmp/$USER 
> or similar, run Gnome from there and use sudo as necessary. Same 
> result without the risks of running Gnome as root.
> 

Are you guys saying that gnome is so insecure that merely executing it
as root is a major risk?!

Wow...

Just... wow...

I'm glad I use KDE...




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