> No, it's my way to run things as root, in general. I distrust su, sudo > and friends. >
su is mature, well understood and the standard way of doing things. If you had run an extra term in your X session that had been su'd to root, you wouldn't be exposing a root shell at the console. Perhaps your distrust of su is making you less secure? You might be thinking in absolutes, eg "su is insecure" but its better to think along the lines of "is <some option> more or less secure than su?"
