Re: root login
Can we please leave this one alone as it is getting very dull and costing
way too many people way too much bandwidth. This kind of issue has been
debated for at least 20 years and there is still no consensus.
R.
PeteM
On 30 Apr 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 13:57, Michael Toomim wrote:
> --snip--
> > Of course users never *need* to log into gdm as root -- you don't *need*
> > GDM in the first place -- but it makes things easier in some cases. On
> > the opposite end, nobody has given a convincing argument for why you
> > *need* to keep root logins away from gdm!
>
> I think that having root logins disabled by default and letting you
> enable them just by running gdmconfig is perfectly reasonable. It makes
> sure that an average user who isn't too much of administrator won't be
> tempted to stay logged in as root all the time. And it involves an extra
> 11.4 seconds of work for someone who actually knows what they're doing.
> (Ok, it might be 11.6 seconds if you have a slow computer... ;)
>
> > I'm not proposing anything radical here -- I'm "proposing" the status quo.
>
> Hmm. If you're proposing the status quo, then, judging by the numbers,
> we should all be using Windows. But to stick to just Linux, Red Hat,
> Mandrake, and especially Lindows are all made specifically to compete
> with Windows. Debian has never had a policy of competing with windows.
> Debian only wants to be the best Linux distro. In an effort to make
> their systems more accessible to Windows dropouts, Red Hat, Mandrake,
> and Lindows can allow root logins by default.
>
> I just find it amusing that this entire thread is all about 1 little
> word in a configuration file. "true" as opposed to "false". Really seems
> rather insignificant in that context. :)
>
>
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