F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

[Rahul Sundaram]

Robert Scheck wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> You can at run level 3. You can even start X after that.
> 
> Haha, if the machine is a few hundred miles away at the customer and you
> don't have any longer access? Ever tried to explain a non-computer user
> being near to the machine how to solve issues via phone if it's urgent or
> even critical and time to drive the few hundred miles is not available,
> too? Very clever suggestion, you've made...

Yes. I have. For a few years actually and in my experience, it has 
always been more efficient to instruct people type things in the 
terminal rather than login via GDM as root user. For one, the shell is 
pretty consistent, commands don't change often if at all and for 
administration, you frequently have to fall back to the terminal anyway.

Never once have I felt a real need to tell people to get a root X login 
for any reason at all.

Rahul