You missed the point. He was saying you can use sudo to escalate the privileges of ONE graphical process, a significantly safer proposition than logging into and entire GUI session as root, not to mention being less of a waste of time.
It has been stated on a few wikis that the fallback option for GNOME3 is only a temporary measure; they intend to have the system make the decision for you. Again, have a look at xfce, you may like what you see. Aaron On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Leslie S Satenstein <[email protected] > wrote: > Just for the record. When I enable the Root Access, I make certain to not > use either any browser or email program. > > One thing that I find difficult to understand is this. I do a sudo command > and what it gives me is command line access. One slip of a rm rf command > and that file is doomed. > With GUI, I have a choice to delete or more to trash. In GUI, and in Root, > I empty trash before exiting. > > So far, I can truthfully say that using Root GUI for many root activities > is safer than using sudo commands. > > In closing, just as the danger exists in using sudo to do root commands, > there is a (smaller) danger in doing maintenance from the GUI interface. > > Renames, moving files from directory to directory, sorting a directory by > date and handling older files, or sorting by type and handling those files > is soo much easier in GUI mode. > Time is money and GUI access takes less human time. > > *------------------ > * > > Regards > * > Leslie > * > *Mr. Leslie Satenstein > *40 years in IT and going strong. > Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, > and tomorrow will be even better. > > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]> > alternative: [email protected] > www.itbms.biz >
_______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
