Here is a perfect summation of why it's absolutely correct to disable root login by default, from #mandrake IRC: (...) Had he been able to login as root by default, he would simply have done so, and probably carried on with this incorrect and dangerous practice. Since he couldn't, he asked for information on how he could, and the channel was able to instruct him in the proper way to do the task he needed to do. He's satisfied and has learnt how to do something properly, and his system is less of a security risk to the rest of the world. Everyone's happy.
Yeah indeed.
Could somebody give me a good reason why one should be able to login to KDE/Gnome as root, i.e. not being able to do the same thing as an ordinary user using su?
Regards,
-- T.
