On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 09:02:31 (+0000), Joe wrote: > On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 19:16:30 -0600 > David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > As for MC, it's in the population of programs that I would never run > > as root, along with X, Emacs, …Office, browsers, media players (does > > that cover it?). Root does not need Swiss Army knives slashing about. > > Isn't that odd? I almost never run mc as anything other than root. I > normally use Nautilus or Thunar for file work, but if it's anything > a bit hairy, I fire up a sudo mc terminal.
I'm not familiar with hairy file work (as root, that is). Cheers, David.