Root login in rawhide and display managers

[Rahul Sundaram]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Richi Plana <myfedora <at> richip.dhs.org> writes:
>> Why would anyone want an application to run, anyway, that has the
>> potential of bringing down the system or accessing other users' files?
> 
> Unfortunately, when you're the only user on the system, running your 
> applications as your regular user won't help much, they can still eat all your 
> files. You'd have to run applications like browsers as a different user to take 
> advantage of the user-based security model, and I don't see many people doing 
> that.

Note that we have SELinux policies by default for Firefox from Fedora 7 
onwards which can be further tuned to limit damage. There is also a 
guest user functionality in rawhide which can quite useful

http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/11913.html

Rahul