[Thunar-dev] Feature request: superuser mode

[N. Volbers]

Danny Milosavljevic schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:44:29 +0200, N. Volbers wrote:
> 
>> Works great. So basically my request is reduced to the request for a 
>> warning that is displayed, if you  run thunar as root user.
> 
> I thought running X (or worse, gtk) applications as root was a security
> hazard.

I am not talking about running X as root. And IMHO running a single gtk 
application as root is definitely the better solution than running your 
whole X session as root.

I am a big fan of the shell, but I don't believe it should be a 
neccessity to use it if you want to delete/modify/rename/whatever some 
system files. After all, the purpose of a file manager is to manage 
_all_ files on your computer, and not just the ones in your home directory.

So what this superuser mode (which is now already implemented, thanks 
Benedikt!) is all about, is the ability to spawn a new instance of 
thunar for these rare cases where you need superuser access (using gksu 
or something similar), and then, because just as you said it is 
dangerous to work as root, to remind you of the fact that you are 
running thunar as superuser.


Niklas.