# Re: xsane as root

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 05:56:29 PST

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  Andreas Beck wrote:

  > O.K. - now for a word about running SANE as root: I'd opt for placing a big
  > fat warning or some configuration file if desired. I generally do not think
  > it is a good idea to restrict root from doing anything. It's the whole
  > purpose of the "root" concept to be able to override all and everything.
  >

  Hi Andreas,

  there is another thing I don`t like at that point:
  I often get mails form people who write ... does not work like expected or
  here or there happen something strange. After a long discussion what it could be
  I find out they used it as root and did not know what they do.

  It takes me a lot of time to discuss problems/errors of xsane and I hate to spend
  my time on unnecessary discussions. And if after all I tell the people please not
  to use xsane as root they simply ask WHY.

  So a warning does not help at that point. May be it helps if every 5 ms there pops up
  a window with the warning ;-). So my consequence could be to make sure
  xsane can not be run as root.

  May be this way: for xsane versions smaller than 1.0 this is included.

  Bye
  Oliver

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