root has less menus

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 21:09, ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:
> > Much easier to create a new regular user whose home dir is
> > /tmp/$USER or similar, run Gnome from there and use sudo as
> > necessary. Same result without the risks of running Gnome as
> > root.
>
> Are you guys saying that gnome is so insecure that merely executing
> it as root is a major risk?!

No, I'm saying that running any user app as root is insanely dumb.

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Alan McKinnon
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