On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:24:32 -0500 Richard Shaw wrote: > The system-config* tools will prompt for > root authentication if necessary
Thousands and thousands of times in a row, in fact :-). I'm still waiting for someone to point me to the web page documenting the actual case histories of horrible things that happened because a GUI app was running as root. (NOT the cases where people did stupid things in GUIs, I want the one that describes people doing perfectly normal safe operations who had horrible things go wrong simply because they were running a gui as root). -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
