On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:22:40AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Where does it end ... more wizards and hand holding, small animated
> characters to help guide people through, while at the same time removing
> anything sharp so users don't cut themselves?
>
> I can understand telling users running X as root is bad, but removing
> the ability to do so seems a bit nanny.
>
Removing the ability to do so, by default.
I agree with that. Gdm has (had?) an "AllowRoot" option that should be
enough. A user can always go to a text console and do a manual "startx",
and I'm not against allowing that.
Regards,
Luciano Rocha
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