Kim B. Nielsen wrote:
Actually, for my work, I use the graphical root login for one thing:
Setting up a freshly installed machine... I know that this can be done
from an user account, but I
Kickstart doesn't help? It's a fairly useful technology that only Red
Hat has a good implementation of. (That I'm aware of.)
Another issue is, that a system, at install time, can be configured
without any users at all. This is for instance the case if you
configure network authentication. If this setup for some reason
doesn't work, and root cannot log in (graphically), the user is left
with a system he cannot login to. Surely he can use a graphical
console, but often a graphical login will be more usefull, since it
can be easier to fix thing. Anyway, you are able to have a webbrowser
and a console on the same screen, which I have found to be very
usefull :)
But an admin can get into X even if GDM disallows it. And only an admin
is setting up machines with network authentication. It's the home users
that don't have a fricken' clue that think, "oh, I'll log in as this
root thingy, it's soooo much easier!" that are the problem.
However, I'm voting in favor off a warning message at log in, and
possibly some doomsday looking desktop.
Regards
/kbn