On 16/6/20 6:19 am, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:05:32PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote:
I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious
that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in
the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security
risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen other distros
(Ubuntu,Kubuntu, Mint) to name a couple.
Do you have any source for this claim?
Debian tends to do little if any customization to such big software
packages like KDE (there simply aren't enough resources for it), with
the obvious exception of integrating it with the rest of the system.
No, no. The secret Debian Hierarchy is out to get us! Run!
;-)
Now more seriously, Gary: I think the default policy to disable root
for such huge GUI programs is sensible: there is no way in hell one
could make them secure.
As a default, it seems to make sense.
OTOH it is *your* computer, so there should be a way to override that
default behaviour. And it seems there is. All is well?
Software shouldn't *force* you to do something.
Cheers
-- t
Here, hear i say. It is my computer.
Now, i just tested both caja and nemo and both run as sudo and su -c.
caja could not connect to ibus. (Default file managers for Mate & Cinnamon)
I am sure I have had other file managers run as sudo.
I reckon the problem is dolphin specific. Having said that, I can't
check in another environment, other than debian, mint - oh I could
download and run an ISO in vbox. Am I that desperate to prove the point
- not yet.
--
Keith Bainbridge
keithr...@gmail.com
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