[MLUG] Fedora 15 ideosynchracies.

[aaron d]

You missed the point. He was saying you can use sudo to escalate the
privileges of ONE graphical process, a significantly safer proposition than
logging into and entire GUI session as root, not to mention being less of a
waste of time.

It has been stated on a few wikis that the fallback option for GNOME3 is
only a temporary measure; they intend to have the system make the decision
for you. Again, have a look at xfce, you may like what you see.

Aaron

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo.com
> wrote:

> Just for the record. When I enable the Root Access, I make certain to not
> use either any browser or email program.
>
> One thing that I find difficult to understand is this.  I do a sudo command
> and what it gives me is command line access.  One slip of a rm rf command
> and that file is doomed.
> With GUI, I have a choice to delete or more to trash.  In GUI, and in Root,
> I empty trash before exiting.
>
> So far, I can truthfully say that using Root GUI for many root activities
> is safer than using sudo commands.
>
> In closing, just as the danger exists in using sudo to do root commands,
> there is a (smaller) danger in doing maintenance from the GUI interface.
>
> Renames, moving files from directory to directory, sorting a directory by
> date and handling older files, or sorting by type and handling those files
> is soo much easier in GUI mode.
> Time is money and GUI access takes less human time.
>
> *------------------
> *
>
> Regards
>  *
>  Leslie
> *
> *Mr. Leslie Satenstein
> *40 years in IT and going strong.
> Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day,
> and tomorrow will be even better.
>
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