What I HATE about F11
Manuel Wolfshant
wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Sun Jun 14 11:10:42 UTC 2009
On 06/14/2009 11:35 AM, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 22:19 -0400, Charles Butterfield wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> * Root gdm login - gets harder every release - SHAME ON YOU root
>> nazis!
>>
> You can always init 3, login as root and startx if you *really need*
> graphical root login (or use su in gnome-terminal or whatever gui
> terminal is your favourite). I think that disabling root login in gdm is
> fairly good security measure for noobs coming windows while experienced
> administrators still know what to do if they need it. But I've never
> really needed gui root login for the 4 past years I've been using Fedora
> linux.
>
To be honest, I like the Ubuntu way of adding a sudoers entry for the
first user that gets created. I find it a satisfactory middle ground
between "no GUI login as root" and "I want to be able to exercise my
right to shoot myself in the foot!"
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