On 28/10/12 21:14, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to duscuss a function in subject. Starting a lot of GUI > applications (including MS Windows .exe files, browsers, etc.) under > root makes linux vulnerable to troyans, backdoors, not mention the > cost of a failure of the buggy GUI application when it operates with > unlimited privileges is very high. And 'Open folder as a root' starts > all of this. Since such kind of escalated privileges (which is much > worse than some 'sudo -s' which is unwelcomed and often denied by > administrator) is such dangerous no other file managers have such > functionality available for a regular user. And no regular user would > ever need such functionality but only administrator of multi-user > system probably. If regular user wants open folder as root it usually > means something was done badly before (for example, missing a group > for user) and that should be fixed at that place instead of opening > as root. So I think this should be available only in 'advanced' mode, > the same way as SUID and SGID changes are available only in > 'advanced' mode currently. What do you think? > > With best regards. Andriy. > While useful, I think it can be diepensed with. I tend to start pcmanfm as root if I require that sort of privilege. This makes it the same as nautilus in that respect since nautilus-gksu was dropped.
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