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On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 08:14:13AM +0100, Oliver Rauch wrote:
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<EM>&gt;
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; &gt; I
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; &gt;am currently doing EVERYTHING on my system as root. This is for the
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; &gt;simple reason that I am new to Linux and have some odd hardware in my
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; &gt;system
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<EM>&gt;
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<EM>&gt; That is no reason to run everything always as root.
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<P>That is your poinion. It also happens to be my opinion. It's hardly
<BR>
absolute truth, by any stretch; first of all, we don't know what kind
<BR>
of problems this system has.
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<P><EM>&gt; The second thing is that I get a lot of questions from people who have
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; problems because they
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; run xsane as root. And I have better things to do than to read/answer such
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; unnecessary questions.
</EM><BR>
<P>This is a valid point, but unfortunately blocking xsane from running
<BR>
as root will not help.
<BR>
<P>Those who don't understand will try to run xsane anyway, get a message
<BR>
that the program won't run, and then email you about it. You'll still
<BR>
get the same type of emails - odds are you'll get even _more_.
<BR>
<P>You won't be able to change the world by making your program the odd
<BR>
one out. In fact, making your program behave in an unexpected way
<BR>
(which is what you're suggesting) is actually much more likely to
<BR>
cause you even more wasted time.
<BR>
<P>Jesper
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