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Re: GNOME root's logins (looking for feeback)



On 02/20/2011 10:45 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:31:12 -0500, Tom H wrote:

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote:

I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM
greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any
configuration file?

Do you mean through the GDM Greeter or by bypassing it with startx?

With "startx".

AFAIK, GDM greeter requires file edition to allow root's logins, but
that's also possible.

So, what (and how) we (or GNOME's policy) want to protect with the
current behaviour? It sounds like "security through obscurity" which
makes no good to anyone.


A car analogy: speed bumps don't *stop* you from speeding, but they
make it more inconvenient.

--
"The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery."
Milton Friedman


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