On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:51:35PM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Weir" <rweir@ertius.org> > To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 01:28 > Subject: Re: GUI login screen. > > Guess I will have to. You can almost certainly reconfigure GDM to allow you to do this, but it's still a REALLY silly idea. Using sudo is a good habit to get into, and it WILL save your arse at some point. From my /etc/sudoers: rob ALL=(ALL) ALL I can run anything as any user, and will only be prompted for my *user* password after 15 minutes or whatever the timeout is. I run everything as a normal user, and use "sudo programname" for the occasional programs which require root priveleges. Don't forget to use "visudo" to edit that file, not a regular text file. Interesting fact: now that I have sudo setup, I haven't logged into this machine as root in *months*. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Juiliett Class Submarine bce SSL Fidel Castro Subversion
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