On Sam, 2003-04-26 at 23:01, Michael Toomim wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > That's GDM not letting you log in then, which is a good thing. :-) Always > > use X / GNOME / KDE as a normal user, not root. > > Why is this a decidedly "good thing"? Many other distributions and OS's > let users log into the graphical interface as root equivalents, and I > don't see how it can possibly be that big of a security risk. > > Users can log into the command prompt as root. They can even run startx > as root. But they can't log into GDM as root?
Sure, they can, if they absolutely want to - it's a config option. It's still a bad idea though, even logging in to the console as root is for various reasons which are off topic here. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
