----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 10:26 PM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] Re: bluefish-0.3.6-1mdk
>
> >
> > It would be nice if you could run bluefish as root, but it won't
> > allow you. That should be =my= decision - not teh programs.
> >
>
>
> no. it was put there for the good of you, so you don't decide to do anything
> silly as root.
Yes, but it's my decision if I want to do something silly or even disasterous. I
either learn from my mistakes, or buy an I-Mac. 8).
I can understand that there will be programs that will =only= run as root, but when I
am root, nothing should be denied me unless I choose it that way - The power and
freedom of Linux allows me the privelege of being silly.
>
> anyway. checking out the bluefish source, you _can_ run this as root, if you
> specify the -s flag. at startup it checks with geteuid() and getuid() to
> make sure that you aren't run as root, and this isn't suid root. i'm lazy to
> check if the -s flag works .....but this the gprint messages tell me so.
> test it and tell me if it doesn't work out that way. if it doesn't, i'll
> patch the source.
>
>
> Geoff
Thanks, Geoff. I assume you meant that I had to re-compile the source? I should be
able to d/l it and get around to it this weekend. Damn Friday work deadlines.
Hoyt
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