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thorne
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garo
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| You should NEVER work in X as root ! Actually, should never work as root unless you need to configure/install/delete/.. something and you don't have the rights to do it as a normal user. And if you need to be root just use |
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rojaro
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garo is absolutely right! never ever run X as root at all - it's just TOO dangerous, especially if your machine is connected to the internet!!!!
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thorne
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garo
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| Quote: | | but I'd also like to listen to some tunes while I'm doing "root-intensive" stuff |
Just login to X as a normal user and open a console and "su" yourself to root there, now you are root and have music at the same time.
| Quote: | | garo is absolutely right! |
Now,that's something I don't hear much ...  |
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rojaro
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| garo wrote: | | Now,that's something I don't hear much ... :D |
well, most X users dont know much about it's technical background and how exactly X works and even more users just dont care about these things but are the loudest when complaining afterwards when something bad happens ... and in this particular case i could not resist to underline your statement as it was absolutely correct :)
not knowing about a thing doesnt mean it cant harm you ... someone should tell that microsoft with their idiotic "security through obscurity"-tactics too ... :)
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garo
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| Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2002 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| thorn, could you please change the dots in your messages back to the original message, that way other people can also learn something from this thread |
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