Havoc Pennington wrote:
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 16:16 -0700, Jon Savage wrote:
>>>Well, I know that, but it works fine in KDE.
>>>And if somebody insist to log in as root, it is even more dangerous that
>>>he cannot lock the screen.
>
>If logging in as root to a graphical session truly is a badthing(tm)
>could one not argue that gnome/kde/yourfaviorite gui sessions should
>be disabled for root by default? GUI admin tools are still available
>from the application menu(s) in user sessions, along with all of the
>cli goodness from a terminal + su -/sudo whatever.
>
>(fully expecting to get my butt kicked for this suggestion)
>
I agree with you, fwiw. Any reason to need to log in as root is a bug.
Havoc
Maybe SuSE or Mandrake's scary red background if you login as root is a
good idea. Should we implement that for RHEL4?
Warren Togami
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