Re: Default Window Manager

[Tyrin Price <tyrin@tscnet.com>]

* Daniel Freedman <freedman@ccmr.cornell.edu> [08Apr01 22:31 -0400]:
> Anything that runs as root has root level permissions, with the
> associated ability to do essentially anything to your system.  Most
> people try very hard to absolutely limit the number of programs run as
> root.  X is a _very_ large program, with I'm sure (even consideering
> its fine pedigree coming out of MIT's Project Athena) a fair amount of
> bugs, buffer overflows, etc.; not the type of things you would want to
> have root privileges.

You apparently don't know that X actually runs suid root.


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