gISOmount should run as user
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gISOMount |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hey all.
Uhh, gISOmount should run as a user, not as root.
It is very dangerous (and highly inconvenient) for certain desktop applications such as X-Chat or gISOMount (that is, desktop applications which are not intended to access data from the root user) to run as root, because:
* if (as an example) X-Chat is always running as root, then there is a settings/
* if the user wants to save a file in *their* home directory, well too bad so sad - THEY CAN'T. This is the gist of the "settings/
* and finally... What if the user was "stupid" (so to speak) and downloaded a different third-party gISOMount that could be a trojan horse to various exploits/etc???
Please take your time to consider this.