On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:04:53AM +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> You'd rather it did what KDE does and not drop privs at all,
running
> arbitrary eye-candy sub-processes as root?
They can't be trusted to run as root? Can they be trusted to be run as
any user at all?
KDE doesn't support setuid usage, nor does gtk+. Its a sensible policy anyway.