# Re: xsane as root

From: Karl Heinz Kremer (khk@khk.net)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 06:05:12 PST

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  Oliver,

  you can not change mankind :-) There will always be those who think
  that they need root access all the time. I worked as a Unix sysadmin
  and I rarely log in as root into a machine because I know what can go
  wrong.

  So just give them what they are asking for, but don't make it too
  easy:

  Just add a command line switch that let's the user run xsane as root.
  If this switch is not there generate an error message telling the user
  that what they are trying to do is dangerous and that you will not
  accept any problem reports from that. Then tell them how they can
  run xsane as root.

  In addition to that I would create a warning window everytime somebody
  tries to start the program as root.

  Karl Heinz

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