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NEVER EVER use with root
Authored by: anjoschu on May 28, '04 03:26:30AM

Hi, I'm the author of this hint.

As ptejad pointed out, if you use this hint and change the user/group properties in the script to "root" or some admin account, you may end up in serious trouble.

In an earlier hint on running applications as another user (using sudo), you are still asked for the admin password each time you run the app. But here, you are asked only _once_ when adding the app. In combination with root, this makes a dangerous combination as apps could act as root without your intervention.

So: USE THIS SCRIPT ONLY WITH UNPRIVILEGED USERS. Not Admins. Not root.
For admin/root usage, the earlier hint would be better suided (haha) than this one (although personally I wouldn't want to run a non-shell app as root, either. What for?).

I would like to point out clear that this hint is definitely not unsafe per se. If you respect the never-root-or-admin warning, all is well.



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