On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 09:27, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 02:40:22AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Jenner Alm?nzar"> > > > > > I finally got gnome working, but I have on question, why root can't login > > > on gnome 1.4? > > > > It actually can't, or are you getting the "you shouldn't log in as root" > > message? If it's the message - read it carefully. You should not be logging > > into your X session as root. Log in as your normal user, and use su or sudo > > to do administrative tasks. > > Well, there are legitimate things to do as root, that you can't do as > users. One of these things would be to run the GDM configurator, which > is in the Application menu even when you are not root, but only pop's up > a message saying that you should be root. But now you are saying that > you should not be root in gnome, and as a result, the GDM configurator > is an unusable menu entry, and should be removed. > > A better solution would be to have the ability to run certain using > sudo, if you are in the sudoer database. > > Maybe simply changing : > > Exec=gdmsetup > > by > > Exec="sudo gdmsetup" > > in /usr/share/applications/gdmsetup.desktop, or something such should do > the trick, i don't know, maybe there is something more needed. > > The other thing that root has and a simple user has not, is the ability > to shutdown or reboot the box. A similar trick could be done for this. > > In gnome 1, i used to have a "sudo gshutdown" launcher, which did just > that, but this is no more possible in gnome 2. And apparently nobody > cares about this. > > Now, how could this be practically solved ? Maybe we should have a group > which is configured so that it has the right to these applications, and > thus we would not really need sudo, and a setting program to be able to > add a user to this group, or we need a setting program to manage the > sudoer database, and use it in the few cases that need root.
That's because the GNOME in Debian is badly integrated. Launch gdmsetup, or try to log out on a a Red Hat box, and you get asked for the root password, and you can shutdown as a normal user (configurable). -- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
