On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:48:54AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/2011 09:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I wonder what is the point of forbidding root's GUI logins from GDM > >greeter while this can be easily by-passed without editing any > >configuration file? > > > > Behavioral conditioning. Yes, all we geeks know how to do it, but > our "users" don't, and the extra bit of work-around means that no > one gets in the bad, bad, bad habit of logging in as root. >
Isn't Gnome just following precedent where, in reality, _any_ ability to operate as root is conditioning at its essence. What are there, 2 or 3 ways to reset the root password without any permission or ownership at all? My _harddrive_ is passworded from the BIOS. I don't understand how airtight that is but the BIOS info warned that there is no way to access data without that password. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
