On Sat, 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"? > (...) > This sounds like highly unnecessary paranoia to me.
>From /etc/gdm/gdm.conf : [security] # If any distributions ship with this one off, they should be shot # this is only local, so it's only for say kiosk use, when you # want to minimize possibility of breakin AllowRoot=true # If you want to be paranoid, turn this one off AllowRemoteRoot=false
