Just tried live_update and it requires X (and of course to be root). On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 11:55, Buchan Milne wrote: > 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 -- _ _ _ _ | |_____| | |_/ | | / / -_) | / / | |_\_\___|_|_\_\_| @ sbcglobal.net
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