Where's Konqueror in SU
Jim
mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 5 17:14:44 UTC 2009
On 11/05/2009 07:29 AM, Karel Volný wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 of November 2009 19:15:50 Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> What some people are saying is that you should not be able to
>> log in to the entire graphical desktop from the graphical
>> login manager as root, which is arguably true, but entirely
>> irrelevant to the main issue here.
>>
> what I say is that you should be able to do that at your will
>
> you should be warned that this is not a good idea, and this is
> the line what the software (thus its authors) should not cross
>
> as it was said by John:
> "My security is my responsibility, not my vendor's. The vendor's
> responsibility is to provide tools and documentation.
>
> Neither you nor my vendors understand my particular requirements
> and circumstances, and lacking that information you are poorly
> qualified to judge."
>
> I'm sorry for my overreaction, but the issue is quite sensitive
> to me due its analogy to other things happening all over the
> world (and touching me) - "for our safety"
>
> this really does not belong on this list; but my will is weak and
> I couldn't resist to react when the original writer was told not
> to use GUI as root at all ... I'll try better next time not to
> waste your time
>
>
>> Most importantly, there is actually a big bug at the root of
>> this discussion, it's filed and marked as a release blocker
>> and there's an updated selinux-policy available that ought to
>> fix it. The bug is
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532748 , the fix
>> is in
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=139739 .
>> The bug stopped the 'kdesu' command working,
>>
> ...
>
> thankyou - this is exactly the piece of information that was
> missing to answer the original post ... Adam ruleZZ again! ;-)
>
> K.
>
>
Would someone explain to me what is the detrimental difference between
a Gui or command line, logging in to root from the same box .
Most of the people that over reacted to question was they looked at
Konqueror as a Web Browser, not realizing it is also a File Manager.
Konqueror also has a very nice feature called "fish" that allow users to
move files from one computer to another, using SSH.
fish://user@192.168.1.100:/home/user
Rules to answering this question:
1. Don't over react to question.
2. I'm not talking about using a Web Browser in this case, because that
is just plain stupid.
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