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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: KFM
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-01-27 10:54:29
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Admin wrote:
> 
> Hi, This is serious; If user logs in as root, kfm doesn't recognise it \
> automatically; that means that root doesn't get distinct Edit local/global \
> mime/apps 
> Root can edit only global mimetypes and not his own. Besides it looks confusing for \
> most confused-enough roots. 
> It worked before; now I have to add -s switch to kfm to do that.
> --
> sven

I think that users who run KFM as root have a serious (security) 
problem anyway.

Which doesn't mean that this shouldn't be fixed.

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
Why do you think I'm paranoid?


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