On 04/10/2012 12:26 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
2012/4/10 Frank Griffin<[email protected]>:
On 04/10/2012 12:11 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
Common sense? Oh, wait, this is usually broken by people who put
principles above common sense. Pls lets put aside with such things like
"freedom and choice by all means and don't deny me my suicide!" or "Upstream
rules above everything!". Pls let common sense rule. This is not a technical
issue, so let's switch on reason.
I have no problem with disabling DM support for root login by default, or
not documenting how to enable it, or having the red screen. That's common
sense. Deliberately breaking a feature with which you don't agree is just
plain high-handed and intrusive.
Then you have a problem here. Mageia does the former, to which you
agree as being common sense. But at the same time you call this common
sense "plain high-handed and intrusive".
IINM, the OP said that he went into kdmrc and manually changed the
keyword he needed in order to enable DM root login, but that KDM had
been changed to ignore that keyword no matter what the setting in kdmrc.
Having the keyword set to disable the feature is common sense. Patching
KDM to refuse to acknowledge it even if it's enabled is not.
