On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 12:52 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 06/16/08 07:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > A certain version of SuSE would set the desktop background to red > > > > if you logged in as root. > > > > > > As did Mandrake, when I left it for Debian. I always thought it > > > was a good idea. > > > > Seems like it would be better to just disallow root logins to X. And > > to use PGP MIME instead of long-ago deprecated inline PGP. > > I use root logins to X, but usually while setting up a system. I work > better with a GUI. I know that's not a cool thing to say on a geek > list, but it's the way my brain works. When I set up a system, lots of > times there's mount points to create and other things I need to do that > involved a program like Konqueror. Still seems like a weak excuse: If you log in as a normal user, both major desktop environments have reasonable "run as another user" methods that are easy and effective to use as opposed to logging in as root. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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