On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 11:05:32PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > > > I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious > > that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in > > the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security > > risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen other distros > > (Ubuntu,Kubuntu, Mint) to name a couple. > > Do you have any source for this claim? > > Debian tends to do little if any customization to such big software > packages like KDE (there simply aren't enough resources for it), with > the obvious exception of integrating it with the rest of the system. No, no. The secret Debian Hierarchy is out to get us! Run! ;-) Now more seriously, Gary: I think the default policy to disable root for such huge GUI programs is sensible: there is no way in hell one could make them secure. As a default, it seems to make sense. OTOH it is *your* computer, so there should be a way to override that default behaviour. And it seems there is. All is well? Software shouldn't *force* you to do something. Cheers -- t
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