gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:45:20 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] KMail from root 

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:41:18PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> That is a scary thought! My current solution is to "xhost + localhost", "su 
> paul", then "kmail &". After migrating a few items it shouldn't be a problem 
> to use a regular user account.

Wait... you're logging into KDE, as root, and doing (well, anything
at all, but...) such things as xhost +<anything>?

Do you understand the implications of this?

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