Re: An experiment in backup

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 01/17/2015 01:38 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt <curty@free.fr
> <mailto:curty@free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com
>     <mailto:kogorman@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> startx
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> I did
>     > sudo startx
>
>     I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended
>     to be root when you startx.
>
>     <[🔎] slrnmbl5p5.22m.curty@einstein.electron.org">https://lists.debian.org/[🔎] slrnmbl5p5.22m.curty@einstein.electron.org>
>
>
> I'm trying to learn here, so it would help if I knew why, or at least
> got a link to such an unrecommendation.

You wouldn't open your standard user desktop. You'd open root's desktop 
which wouldn't be populated. Not to mention the standard caveat against 
running X as root. It's a security risk. :) Ric



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