On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 10:51 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 05:53 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:27:18PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > I agree with you, fwiw. Any reason to need to log in as root is a bug.
>
> Then gdm is a bug 8) You need root login when things like ldap go away otherwise
> you can't login.
A lot of sites using LDAP probably also use NFS (or otherwise networked)
home directories, and so if you can't contact the LDAP server, you're
unlikely to be able to get to the NFS server either, and thus you don't
have any access to your data. So what use is it to log in as root?
Because root can typically login b/c:
root account/pw is local
root homedir is local
root can fix the problem if it's just a futzed network adapter.
-sv