On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, cybercfo wrote: > ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-16 20:40 ------- > > Because people should not be logging in to the gui as root. There are many > other ways to accomplish running gui tools as root including running from su > terminal, sudo, mcc, etc. so logging in to gui as root should be completely > unnecessary.
There is only one thing I can think of that would be easier by logging in as root, and I have actually done this before, and that is resizing /home with diskdrake. Anyway, you can use the GUI tool (Mandrake Control Center->Hardware->Display Manager Chooser) to choose kdm or gdm which have the same functionality they had in 9.0. The only *possible* validity your bug could have is if you wanted kdm to be the default over mdkkdm, but that would be disregarded anyway, since Mandrakesoft obviously wanted to accomplish some goals with mdkkdm, such as making it more difficult to log in as root. BTW, I have not logged in as root on any of my own machines in X in a few years. The only time I have had to log in as root directly the machine was in a state where it would not run X anyway ... (The only reason I have done it recently was when helping a newbie resize his /home partition, and I don't like frightening newbies with the command line ...). Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
