Re: root login
On Sam, 2003-04-26 at 23:01, Michael Toomim wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > That's GDM not letting you log in then, which is a good thing. :-) Always
> > use X / GNOME / KDE as a normal user, not root.
>
> Why is this a decidedly "good thing"? Many other distributions and OS's
> let users log into the graphical interface as root equivalents, and I
> don't see how it can possibly be that big of a security risk.
>
> Users can log into the command prompt as root. They can even run startx
> as root. But they can't log into GDM as root?
Sure, they can, if they absolutely want to - it's a config option. It's
still a bad idea though, even logging in to the console as root is for
various reasons which are off topic here.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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