On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 11:26:24AM -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
> >
> > Why would you start X as root, except to test the first time ? Each
> > user runs his or her preferred desktop.
>
> I don't fully know, except that I'm thinking I'm still in testing mode. I'm
> still going back and testing software that was built in chroot, but could
> only be tested (make check etc.) in the fully booted system.
>
> I'm still a real newbie at this.
>
Until you have evaluated the dangers of what you are doing, doing
things as root is always a dangerous idea. Yes, I build things as
root - worst case I'll throw away a new system, or more likely I'll
have to restore from backups. But *running* desktop applications as
root is very dangerous. I test X as root about once in a blue moon
and I can't remember the last time I did that.
Sometimes I let root build the new system in chroot as far as
firefox (e.g. earlier this month: I was expecting problems with
gcc-7.1 and wanted to keep a usable browser). But then I booted
that new system for the second time (first time was just my normal
desktop plus openss{l,h}, mail, Pythons, icu, fcron, rsync, etc - I
needed to check the base system worked before continuing). And each
time the only thing that root did was use a tty. All the normal
testing was done as a user. Of course, root might have had to run
with init=/bin/bash if userspace was severely broken - but that only
happens rarely.
ĸen
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