On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 13:57, Michael Toomim wrote: --snip-- > Of course users never *need* to log into gdm as root -- you don't *need* > GDM in the first place -- but it makes things easier in some cases. On > the opposite end, nobody has given a convincing argument for why you > *need* to keep root logins away from gdm!
I think that having root logins disabled by default and letting you enable them just by running gdmconfig is perfectly reasonable. It makes sure that an average user who isn't too much of administrator won't be tempted to stay logged in as root all the time. And it involves an extra 11.4 seconds of work for someone who actually knows what they're doing. (Ok, it might be 11.6 seconds if you have a slow computer... ;) > I'm not proposing anything radical here -- I'm "proposing" the status quo
