On 2003.09.03 07:31 Tim Fournet wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 23:15, will hill wrote: > > > > > I don't use Mandrake, but can understand the need to log in a GUI as root. > > Some of the expected tools, like adduser, are hard to find and use in Red > > Hat 8 and the GUI tools are good at configuring printers and stuff like > > that. Red Hat's GUI print configurator changes all the KDE and Gnome stuff > > at the same time with a few click and drool mouse movements. It's > > impressive and worthwhile enought to do it that way once and be done with > > it. > > > > With Red Hat Linux, there's still no need to log into an X desktop as > root. The GUI system configuration utilities will ask for the root > password when you open them as a regular user. Or, you can always run > them from a shell prompt after doing an 'su' or 'sudo'. >
This might be right, but only if you know the name of the program. There were some programs that were less prominant in the normal user's GUI. Also, a web search followed by a pop up screen for root password might get some users in trouble one day.
