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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: OT: My KControl modules disappeared
From:       Nadeem Hasan <nhasan () nadmm ! com>
Date:       2002-06-25 21:08:19
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Quoting Troels Tolstrup <troels@tolstrup.org>:

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> On Tuesday 25 June 2002 15:27, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > AFAIK only root can do this, unless you have kde installed in your
> > home directory or made $KDEDIR/share/applnk world writeable or some
> > such oddness.
> 
> While this narrows the problem down, i dont think it removes it. I think 
> the real problem is that someone in the line of playing around with the 
> k menu can bring down vital parts of kde. I think this is a real 
> problem and i think the only sane way to solve it is to NOT have 
> kcontrol look in the applnk folder.
> 
> But i guess this is off topic on this mailing list and should maybe be 
> brought up on devel or core-devel? (i base this on the fact that i 
> think it is a design flaw (bug), not a usability issue)

I don't think its a design flaw or bug at all. If a user has write permission
on /etc and deletes bunch of config files while playing with konqy, that would
probably make his system unusable. Is this a design flaw of Unix itself? That
is why we have permissions and previleges.

Cheers,
--
Nadeem Hasan
nhasan@nadmm.com
http://www.nadmm.com/

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