Re: Safe File Manager to run as root ?
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any
> > security and safety consious Debian users would
> > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move,
> > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better
> > practice to use CLI w/ suid to make those kind of
> > changes.
>
> If you're referring to gmc's pop-up warning box (do other file
> managers do it also ??), I wouldn't worry about it. You can do
> as much, if not more, damage at the command line as you can do
> with a GUI file manager...
I thought this warning was meant more-or-less the danger of running X as
root. The console mc can do same kind of damage.
I may be wrong. It has been long since I used X :-)
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