Ownership

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Dec 23 15:35:03 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:59:08AM -0500, morpheus wrote:
> why not open a console, run su -r then call your file manager from the
> command line?

Other than the fact that '-r' doesn't do anything? :)

Seriously, I'd be hesitant to do this. Most file managers pretty complex
applications to be running as root. Better to just do the fine-tuned single
operations as root rather than run the whole thing that way.

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