Re: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box?

2011-07-05 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Timo timo.bsdm...@gmail.com wrote: Why a faulty desktop application run as unprivileged user is able to crash my system? I mean, I know programs have bugs and sometimes they lead to crashes. I'm fine with that. But why a crashing program (for example firefox or

Fwd: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box?

2011-07-04 Thread Timo
In other words, I don's think, It's about software at all In my opinion Original Message Subject: Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box? Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:29:11 +0200 From: Timo timo.bsdm...@gmail.com Reply-To: timo.bsdm...@gmail.com To: freebsd

Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box?

2011-07-04 Thread Timo
Who decided to run any privileged application, in terms of doing what you didn't want it to? Did you at all try to implement anything you were not sure of? Or what did you ask again? What do you want to employ in the first place, and what security risks are negotiable? (firefox/freezings? try

Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box?

2011-07-04 Thread timp
Which video card do you use? -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/why-desktop-apps-are-able-to-kill-my-freebsd-box-tp4541545p4552169.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: why desktop apps are able to kill my freebsd box?

2011-07-01 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:00:59 +0100, Michael wrote: Why a faulty desktop application run as unprivileged user is able to crash my system? I mean, I know programs have bugs and sometimes they lead to crashes. I'm fine with that. But why a crashing program (for example firefox or banshee)