Felix Miata said: > Bill Mullen wrote: > >> I hate to bring up something that's been rehashed over and over again in >> so many forums, but I must ask, why do you feel any need at *all* to log >> into a full-blown X session as root? I have /never/ needed to do this >> (I'm >> not saying I've never done it, just that in retrospect I've never >> *needed* >> to, and I haven't done so for a very long time now). Frankly I just >> don't >> understand how this can ever be neccessary, or even all that helpful, to >> anyone; the risks, OTOH, are considerable and, to my way of thinking, >> are >> entirely and easily avoidable merely by never doing that. > >> Enlighten me, would you? :) > > I don't do it often, but the usual reason is not remembering or not > being able to figure out how to do some kind of configuration in bash > that Mandrake provides GUI tools to do easily. I've never figured out > the ramifications of doing su in a normal login to do such things, so I > just don't. > --
I don't know of any problems with doing 'su' then launching the required program. In fact, this is what I always recommend that people do. And in most cases, the Mandrake tools can be accessed as a user, with a prompt for the root password. -- Live fast, die young, You're sucking up my bandwidth. J.P. Pasnak, CD CCNA http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca
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