Re: xsane as root

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 16:22:42 PST

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    Bill Wohler wrote:

    > Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE> writes:
    > > Can you give me one good reason why xsane should be run as root?
    >
    > Because the Linux owner has not created any other users. Many have
    > absolutely no need to do so.

    Oh, then I think it is time to give them a reason! ;-)

    In fact there are lots of reasons not to run everything as root.
    You loose a lot of advantages/safety when you do everything as root.
    Then you can use windows too.

    Bye
    Oliver

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