From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 22:20:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791E537C154 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA74506; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D8662F.B245C1F9@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:20:31 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dee Cee Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running X apps as root... References: <38D84109.30527CBB@cyrebels.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dee Cee wrote: > oh and btw, would it be unsecure or immoral or anything to run xwindows > s root...? Nothing about your system can be immoral. :) But it would be both insecure, and foolish. Insecure because if someone cracks an X program on your system they get a root shell, not your unpriviliged user. As long of a shot as it seems to be, stranger things have happened. As for foolish, get used to do everything you can NOT as root. That way mistakes are generally less costly. :) Good luck, Doug -- "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, it would be easier sometimes to change the past" - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message