Re: [tlug] Root - NO KDE

[Eric Oliver Flores <tokoton@example.com>]

Are you are referring to the recent found vulnerability?
The Mandrake Guys were quick to release a fix (MDKSA-2002-:039-2).
I hope! :)



On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 14:38, Josh Glover wrote:
> Nguyen Hung Vu wrote:
> > On 22 Jun 2002, Eric Oliver Flores wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Actually I don't use root at all but the change took place as user and
> >>that affected root.  So when I wanted to test the root account I found
> >>that KDE was out!!  Perhaps is the way that Mandrake is setup.
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Why do you want to run KDE as root? It is dangerous.
> > If you want to run, for example konqueror as root,then run it from konsole
> 
> For that matter, why would you want to run Konqueror as root? Especially 
> in the wake of this Apache chunking vuln, by which it may be possible 
> for a malicious server to 0wnz0r your browser. If this is running as 
> root, well, kiss yer system goodbye, Cowboy.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>
> 
> Associate Systems Administrator
> INCOGEN, Inc.
> 
>