Ticket #458 (accepted enhancement)
Don't execute critical applications as "root"
| Reported by: | TheGeneral | Owned by: | TAsn |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | wishlist |
| Component: | SHR Image | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
If you launch e.g. "Midori" it shows you a warning, that is is running as root.
Critical applications shouldn't be run as root. Maybe it's a good idea to think about running most of the applications not as root.
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Actually it may be a good idea, running stuff as a under privileged user while running the whole system as root. Just in the meanwhile, until we run everything as a normal user...
Though it's not as simple as that, because you may want to save files from midori, and it that case you'd be limited to only special locations, or maybe add a "free for all" dir inside the root's home just for that.
That's a bit crooked though it may actually be a good solution in the meanwhile.
I don't think we have time atm to do either of those two options (there's a topic in the ML about exactly this), as stated there, it's not at the top of our priority list atm, marked as major because of exactly that. Btw, it won't happen before ms1 so marking it as a wishlist item, and changing priority to minor and type to enhancement.