On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:54:19PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > Is there such thing as a GUI File Manager that any | > security and safety consious Debian users would | > use, as ROOT, to manage a file system (i.e. move, | > copy, change permissions) ?? Is it just a better | > practice to use CLI w/ suid to make those kind of | > changes. | | If you're referring to gmc's pop-up warning box (do other file | managers do it also ??), I wouldn't worry about it. You can do | as much, if not more, damage at the command line as you can do | with a GUI file manager... | | Actually, in what way is gmc more "dangerous" than mc ?? | Starting up mc as root provokes no similar warning.
I've never used mc, but I did try gmc a while back. I stopped using gmc when I tried to _copy_ some files from a floppy. Instead the default drag-n-drop action is move. Also, there was a problem writing to the destination. Instead of canceling the action, gmc proceeded to remove the originals even though the copy hadn't been made. I sitck with the CLI now. Also, suppose there is a bug in gmc. Now suppose that you trigger that bug while running as root. And suppose that the bug is very serious ... (filesystem corruption or something, maybe) I think the developers are just warning you and it is your own fault if something like that happens. -D
