Hi Brant,
please try to read somthing about the philosophy on Unix type systems.
Root can destroy anything on your system. Also - if everyone would use it's
Unix system as user Root - the Virus Problems Microsoft Systems do have -
would also exist under Unix. Another reason not to do things as root - is to
protect the user from killing himself (virtually speaking). So - using a
System as User - makes sens.
I someone knows a System well enough to work as root under X - then _he_ knows
how to enable it - thus this wouldn't be a problem.
If a User does not figure out how to enable root Login - then he's IMHO not
ready for login as Root into X.
Just my 2 cents
Joerg
On Thursday 31 July 2003 23:43, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Bill Mullen wrote:
> >On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> >>Felix Miata wrote:
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>As far as I know there is no way to do so. This was the subject of very
> >>heated discussions during 9.0 development.
> >
> >It *can* be done, and fairly easily, as well.
> >
> >The question remains, "Why would anyone want to login to a full X session
> >as root?" ...
>
> Because they want the convenience of full access to all files as with a
> console prompt running as root without the need to know how to use the
> command line.
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Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers
something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
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