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Re: What is the point of sudo?



On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 05:20:37PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >It's also easier to do root-type things while in X without having to log
> >into X as root or muck about with the Xauthority files.
> 
> Which running gdm I don't even know how to do: "sysadmin is not allowed to 
> login here" or some such thing.

And for good reason.  Root should never be logged into a GUI.  There is
no good reason for this.

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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