29 May
2024
29 May
'24
6:30 a.m.
> if you want to find out whether anything bad will
happen by running
> Konqueror as root, then we will save you the time and trouble, and say,
> yes, sooner or later, bad things happen.
I always find this sort of declaration a little exagerated, and funnily no one
ever seems to answer: "why?"
To me there is little difference between running an app with sudo and running
it as root. If I need to do a lot of work as root, I just log in as root (and
I've set up the root desktop with ugly, flashy colours so that I know I'm
there). Letting you login as root with a GUI is a nice thing of TDE.
Of course no one should "live" as root (although I did that for one year when
learning how to use Linux, but that was not a "production" machine), but why
make people believe that as soon as they are root, they are doomed?
People live as root on Windows machines and while this is a dangerous thing,
bad things don't always happen.
I just feel that this "never run Linux as root" is some religious mantra, and
who does not respect it is an heretic.
Thierry