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.
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