Re: root login
<quote who="Michael Toomim">
> All this option does is keep you from logging it as root *at gdm*, which
> is a really pointless feature IMHO.
No it is *NOT*. It stops you from doing something that is ENTIRELY STUPID
AND VERY DANGEROUS and something that you should NEVER WANT TO / HAVE TO DO.
The fact that we don't have brilliant privilege escalation at this point is
annoying, but certainly not a reasonable reason to log in as root.
- Jeff
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