Re: gsu (Was Re: More Political Stuff)

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Havoc Pennington (hp@redhat.com) wrote at 18:36 on 28/08/00:
> 
> 
> Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas@online.no> writes:
> > Maybe a way to disable the themeability would be nice for the
> > security-minded? Would it be possible to do that easily? Sort
> > of like uninstalling Windows scripting host on MS Windows :)
> > 
> 
> I think if you run an app as root connected to your user session, it
> doesn't use your theme. I could be wrong. But still, you shouldn't be
> running untrusted themes...

You are right - if I su to root (or use sudo) and run an application it uses
root's theme

Regards,
Ali