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Re: root login



Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> As the configuration item in the system menu needs the root password,
> only people with the root password can shoot themselves in the foot.
> That said, i can understand that some would not want the shutdown/reboot
> items to be available to everyone, especially on multi-user boxes.

Why not? You can always press the power button. I've sometimes had to
do that with Sun machines running xdm that didn't have these options.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/



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