Re: kdm & gdm + woody

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> 'cause you're not supposed to login as root.  You're not supposed to
> run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff.  See 'man su'
> and 'man sudo' for better alternatives.
 
So who was the idiot genius that thought that one up.  Normally I do login as my user and su when I need to do root stuff.  BUT, I still find it usefull to log into root under a GUI every now and then.  I don't think it should be upto Gnome to not allow me this.  Guy's get a clue...get a consensus before you add something that affects everyone!

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dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> wrote ..
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:37:22AM -0500, techlists@techgod.net wrote:
> | Upgraded to woody, now GDM will not accept my root password.  I can
> | change terminals and I can log in as root fine, but GDM will not
> | accept it, but will allow user login.  So, I installed KDM since I
> | log into KDE anyway, but KDM  does not show KDE as a choice for my
> | GUI.  I had no problem logging into KDE using GDM under potato.
> |
> | What's the deal?
> | 
> | 1. Why does GDM not accept the root password, when the console does?
> 
> 'cause you're not supposed to login as root.  You're not supposed to
> run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff.  See 'man su'
> and 'man sudo' for better alternatives.
> 
> | 2. Why does KDM not show KDE as a choice?
> 
> No idea.
> 
> | 3.  Why does it seem that since Ian Moore has become part of
> | debian/woody, that KDE has had alot of bugs?  He seemed to be better
> | off when we hooked upto tdyc.
> 
> I only used KDE on windows (cygwin/xfree).  I decided on GNOME quite a
> while back, and I like it.
> 
> -D
> 
> 
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