* Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08Apr01 22:31 -0400]: > Anything that runs as root has root level permissions, with the > associated ability to do essentially anything to your system. Most > people try very hard to absolutely limit the number of programs run as > root. X is a _very_ large program, with I'm sure (even consideering > its fine pedigree coming out of MIT's Project Athena) a fair amount of > bugs, buffer overflows, etc.; not the type of things you would want to > have root privileges.
You apparently don't know that X actually runs suid root. -- Regards, -=[Ty]=-