Bill Mullen wrote:
> I hate to bring up something that's been rehashed over and over again in
> so many forums, but I must ask, why do you feel any need at *all* to log
> into a full-blown X session as root? I have /never/ needed to do this (I'm
> not saying I've never done it, just that in retrospect I've never *needed*
> to, and I haven't done so for a very long time now). Frankly I just don't
> understand how this can ever be neccessary, or even all that helpful, to
> anyone; the risks, OTOH, are considerable and, to my way of thinking, are
> entirely and easily avoidable merely by never doing that.
> Enlighten me, would you? :)
I don't do it often, but the usual reason is not remembering or not
being able to figure out how to do some kind of configuration in bash
that Mandrake provides GUI tools to do easily. I've never figured out
the ramifications of doing su in a normal login to do such things, so I
just don't.
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