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  • WTF, root or not root?

    From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.comp.os.linux on Thu Mar 13 17:31:28 2025
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    Since when do we use 'administrator' instead of 'root' in linux?

    Furthermore, in a related rant, what is it with more recent versions of file-managers that REFUSE to allow a user with *root* (and NOT
    administrative) privileges do anything that that user turned root may
    want to do exactly as if s/he were root at cLi level?

    The whole 'pukism' reminds me of so called 'rights' which are really confiscated natural freedoms redistributed in packaged truncated retail fashion relabelled as 'rights'. Root, the thus far ONLY god in a
    computer, has absolute and total natural freedoms; this whole trend
    stinks of microsoftisms leading to "you can't do this, you can't do
    that, and you can't really do anything that 'we' (who is we?) don't
    think you should be able to do"?

    Hang'em all inside their development cubicles but high enough for all to
    see.
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to alt.comp.os.linux on Sat Mar 15 07:00:24 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.linux

    On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:31:28 -0400, bad sector wrote:

    Furthermore, in a related rant, what is it with more recent versions of file-managers that REFUSE to allow a user with *root* (and NOT administrative) privileges do anything that that user turned root may
    want to do exactly as if s/he were root at cLi level?

    It’s long been considered a bad idea to log into a GUI session as root.
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.comp.os.linux on Sun Mar 16 23:21:57 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.linux

    On 3/15/25 03:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:31:28 -0400, bad sector wrote:

    Furthermore, in a related rant, what is it with more recent versions of
    file-managers that REFUSE to allow a user with *root* (and NOT
    administrative) privileges do anything that that user turned root may
    want to do exactly as if s/he were root at cLi level?

    It’s long been considered a bad idea to log into a GUI session as root.

    We're not on the same page; Suse has been offering their su-dolphin
    launcher for decades, I've used it for decades, never a single problem!
    It's not the same as logging in as root and then doing a startx.

    THE problem is, especially with OTHER distros, that regardless of
    whether you start an su-dolphin or invoke dolphin from cLi as root what
    you get is NOT a dolphin with unlimited root privileges (something I
    consider to be a form of fraud).





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