On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 06:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Haha :) No, it's just that, as far as I can see, the impact on newbies is that we tell them to reboot instead of doing ctrl-alt-backspace.
You are presuming a newbie on a single seat/single user system.
Total cost: about twenty seconds (time to reboot vs. time to restart X).
In a corporite environment, BIOS passwords or similar will prevent them from rebooting. A service tech/sys-admin will have to come by.
In a corporate environment the network will be managed by a sysadmin who will easily be able to change the default.