Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

[Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:57:54PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +0000, Wulfy wrote:
> > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >     
> > > >Of course, some things simply cannot be done without a GUI.  Or at least
> > > >they cannot be done efficiently.

> > What I'm curious about is Roberto's claim that "some things cannot be
> > done without a GUI..."
> > 
> > Like what?  Limit it to things that need to be done with somewhat-root
> > privilages (i.e. not viewing the night sky).
> > 
> > I'm really interested in this.  If there's something that root has to do
> > that requires a GUI and hense requires X, then I better start writing a
> > non-GUI app to do it.
> > 
> Sorry.  My statement was not meant to imply that there is anything that
> requires root priviledges *and* a GUI (other than brain-dead things like
> the Oracle installer).  Just that some productive tasks are impossible
> or nearly so without a GUI.

Hi Roberto

I can buy that.  Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured web-browser,
or read a pdf with diagrams without X.

Doug.