On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:26, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 01:20, Robert L Martin wrote: > > > > > And personally i would strip all of the "You are logged in as Root > > > You are a Bad and Foul Person" dialogs from the distro. (now i would > > > not enable auto log in for Root like certain companies do) > > > > Why? Logging into a GUI as root *is* bad and foul and we should take > > every opportunity to stop people who have no reason to do it from doing > > it. The problem is not just theirs, the problem is everybody's. > > Your responsibility ends exactly after you tell them the consequences. > After that, if they still exercise their freedom of choice and log in as > root, it is NONE of your damn business.
Read Robert Martin's proposal again. What he is proposing is exactly that we stop telling them the consequences. -- adamw
