Help clarifying a comment please

[Oisin Feeley]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:25:01 +0530, "Rahul Sundaram"
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> said:
> Oisin Feeley wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm trying to write up the "remove root login via display-manager"
> > thread for the Devel news beat and I'm completely stumped as to what
> > Alan Cox is saying in this comment:
> 
> You could just drop a mail to him. He does answer them usually.
> 
> Rahul

Good suggestion.  He did indeed answer very helpfully and clearly.  For
those that are interested he argues that if network-based authentication
is selected then it doesn't make sense to force local-user creation, but
if it's not selected then the person installing should be encouraged to
create a non-root local user.

Thanks,
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  Oisin Feeley
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