On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any > > security and safety consious Debian users would > > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, > > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better > > practice to use CLI w/ suid to make those kind of > > changes. > > If you're referring to gmc's pop-up warning box (do other file > managers do it also ??), I wouldn't worry about it. You can do > as much, if not more, damage at the command line as you can do > with a GUI file manager...
I thought this warning was meant more-or-less the danger of running X as root. The console mc can do same kind of damage. I may be wrong. It has been long since I used X :-) (Mail from i486-DX4-50MHZ) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
