On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> >
> > > Where have you found these 99% of people? Obviously, of all posting
> in
> > > this thread just two people have seen it - one of them developer.
> So,
> > > speaking about *users* the score is currently 100% against it :-)
> >
> > Well, here at Mandrake we sure do tweaking of system all day long, and
> no
> > one of us is logged as root of course.
> >
> > Some of us use sudo a lot, some of us (like me) open one terminal and
> > become root with "su" in this terminal, and that's fine, but no one
> logs
> > into the WM as root. It's especially dangerous to do mail/web/news,
> cvs
> > stuff, and any normal operations with root, and I don't see a good
> reason
> > to do that provided you have su and sudo.
> >
>
> Sigh ... you argue wrong point. Me too not working as root @home (window
> manager or no window manager). I happened to notice it only because it
> was test system that is reinstalled from scratch every day and I see no
> point in creating additional users every time (if I need to test
> something specific I always can do it).
>
You exactly described my situation. Especially for last weeks when Beta
series comes out.
> But now, when I noticed it, I just say it is way too intrusive. We
> already have root warnings and that is quite enough. You may advice, you
> may teach, you should not force.
>
> So I am not against the idea, I am against the way it is implemented.
>
IMHO best solution will be disable root login on higher security levels.
This works for console why not for KDE or Gnome?
R.V.
