Re: GUI login screen.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:58
Subject: Re: GUI login screen.
> Ken Gilmour wrote:
> > Well i think the best solution to get around this is to setup a normal
user account... then edit the /etc/passwd file and set that person with root
permissions so as soon as they login theyre automatically made root.
> >
>
>
> Umm, no. That means you're still capable of doing nasty things to your
> system. It's much better to use "su" or "sudo" to do root-type things,
> or if we're still talking about rebooting/shutdowns from the GUI login
> manager (gdm, kdm, etc), to configure that login manager to allow
> non-root access to these functions.
>
> --
> Kent
>
Ok. Could you give me a file name, command, or doc to explain the
rebooting/shutdown in gdm.
Regards;
Hoyt
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