On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 13:24, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Felix Miata wrote: > > > Greg Meyer wrote: > > > > > urpme mdkkdm > > > > > urpmi kdebase-kdm > > > > Looks like this is my only option. I can't figure out any way to tell > > mdkKDM I want to login as root instead of regular user. > > I hate to bring up something that's been rehashed over and over again in > so many forums, but I must ask, why do you feel any need at *all* to log > into a full-blown X session as root? I have /never/ needed to do this (I'm > not saying I've never done it, just that in retrospect I've never *needed* > to, and I haven't done so for a very long time now). Frankly I just don't > understand how this can ever be neccessary, or even all that helpful, to > anyone; the risks, OTOH, are considerable and, to my way of thinking, are > entirely and easily avoidable merely by never doing that. > > Enlighten me, would you? :)
It's his box... he want's to. That is all the reason in the world. I've done it a number of times. Why?... I build boxes for people and when I build the box it has no user. I nonetheless have to configure/setup the box and the only option is to log in as root. (much cleaner than creating / deleting a user just to su to root. and I rarely know who I'm building it for, only that I have to build X number of boxes.) Do I do it often on my home box? .... no. But I do, do it. I can't do any more damage that way than I can as a normal user and su/sudo. I also do a lot of "repairs" to boxes. I often login directly as root so that I can do repairs because I don't have a user on the box. As for turning off mdkkdm. Go to /etc/sysconfig and edit the file desktop. Make it say KDM GDM or XDM and you will again have a fully functioning Linux box. Not a "Hi! you are stupid and we know better than you." box. (No need to remove anything. but... you may need to add kdebase-kdm it doesn't get installed by default gdm and xdm do.) James
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