> On Feb 15, 2017, at 17:58, Wolfgang Bauer <wba...@tmo.at> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: >> Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a possibility. > > Ok, but partitionmanager does exactly that. It restarts itself as root if run > as user. > So that instantly would rule out partionmanager as a proposed replacement, I > suppose. > > But KFloppy is quite a simple application. > There should not really be a special risk involved running it as root, but I > might be mistaken there.
Sounds like you're challenging Martin to write a take-over-machine exploit via root KFloppy, and I would bet money that he would succeed ;) -- Nicolás
