Re: Useability-root window desktop

[Terry Milnes <tez interface on ca>]

Hmm, bear with me I am new to the list, (don't know if this
thread has ran too long...<g>)in fact new to Gnome as well. 

Anyway, I have ran other desktop managers over the years and
have used utilities as root while logged in as non root to
Xwindows.

I wanted to make sure it was do-able in Gnome before I posted
though, yeah it is.  I use sudo, and then set up my programs
that need to be ran as root with "sudo -u root program".

I write shell scripts for the programs that will pop up a term
for the password verification which will execute the command
as root on a successful response.

This way I can group all the programs that are executed as
root.

Terry...

Iain wrote:
> 
> > I am no more likely to execute a command that will erase my
> > entire
> > system in a root window desktop than I would be to do so in a
> > terminal.
> 
>     It's surprisingly easy to do actually.
> 
> > I find fault with the logic of insisting that all
> > potentially dangerous system commands be done exclusively in a
> > terminal, especially when that insistence takes place in a *gnome
> > discussion group* ??????????.
> >
>     It is also because at this time there is no secure way of switching
> gnome to be a superuser without running the whole desktop as root, which as
> many people have pointed out is a bad thing, even if you don't accept it.
> 
> > IMHO, it would be better if, after entering `root' in the dialog
> > and before completing password entry,
> 
> What about if you run from terminal?
> Iain
> 
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