xsane as root

From: Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 10:03:12 PST

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    Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

    > > I think about adding a "root" test to xsane so that xsane exits when
    > > started as root.
    >
    > I think you should limit this to a dialog box giving a warning. It is
    > very annoying when one need to recompile a program to get it running
    > as root.
    >

    No, the warning does not help at all because someone who uses xsane as root
    does not that it is dangerous. The idea is that it just will not work.

    Bye
    Oliver 

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