# Re: xsane as root

From: Oliver Rauch (Oliver.Rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Sat Feb 26 2000 - 23:14:13 PST

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  >A thought on the "xsane as root" business: If you are going to try and
  >restrict people's use of "root" for xsane because it is too dangerous,
  >then don't you think you should try to convince everyone who writes
  >software for Linux to follow the same philosophy

  I donīt talk about the other programs/authors. I am the author of a program
  from
  which I know it should not be run as root.

  The second thing is that I get a lot of questions from people who have
  problems because they
  run xsane as root. And I have better things to do than to read/answer such
  unnecessary questions.

  > I
  >am currently doing EVERYTHING on my system as root. This is for the
  >simple reason that I am new to Linux and have some odd hardware in my
  >system

  That is no reason to run everything always as root.
  create a user (normally one command, may be useradd or adduser on your
  system)
  and if something does not work do a "su -" command and test if it works as
  root.
  For everything you already tested and you know it works as non-privilleged
  user
  there is no reason for you to run it as root.

  Bye the way: you can do all tests with scanimage. If scanimage works as
  normal user
  there are no permission problems so if xsane does not work as normal user
  there must be
  another problem.

  Bye
  Oliver

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