On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 17:08, Julien wrote: > Le Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:49:53 +0200 > Mpiktas <vaze0348@uosis.mif.vu.lt> a écrit: > > > now after I choose shutdown gdm > > asks me for a root password. I know it, but my wife will know it only > > over my dead body:) Yet she sometimes need to shutdown the computer. > > Security is good. But let's face it this is ridiculous. If I use > > gnome I use computer as desktop, not a server. So I shutdown it for > > the night. And such a simple operation has become even harder. Or I > > have misconfigured something? I let dpkg overwrite my old gdm config > > file. > > I faced the same problem, and found the solution : you should run > gdmconfig as root, and in the security panel uncheck the « secure system > menu » and everything will be back as normal. > > Now we can discuss whether or not it should be checked by default... Heh, yes. For the record, I say that it should not be checked by default because it creates the false impression that users should know or have knowledge of the root password.
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