change login screen
Tom Horsley
tom.horsley at att.net
Tue Aug 25 19:22:52 UTC 2009
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:11:52 -0400
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> While the intent of preventing root is admirable, in practice it means that you
> have to type in the root password repeatedly when doing system configuration,
> since every tool is going to ask for it. The previous pop-up warning was
> probably as effective for competent people, and incompetent people shouldn't
> have root anyway.
Yea, I want to know where this list is of actual documented cases of
people screwing up their systems by using GUI tools in ways they
couldn't have with the command line (rm -rf / was a well known warning
before there even was a GUI :-).
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