On Sat, 22 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Christopher J. Morrone wrote: > > > > > Sounds dangerous...doesn't a bus error mean that the app tried to write > > into kernel space memory? If so, wouldn't giving it root access allow it > > to overwrite kernel memory and crash the system? > > > > Not dangerous at all. It will still not be allowed to write to kernel > protected space (root is still a user). I have had this problem with the > Netscape 4.6 on one of my systems, it will not run as a regular users > (gets a bus error) but works fine as root. > > This is the communicator-smotif. If I simply run the navigator portion, it > works fine as a user. Communicator will only run as root for me on that > system with is pretty much potato.
Mmm...I still don't like running a misbehaving program as root. :)
