On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 10:45 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
I've been a Linux admin for well over 15 years and I've yet to see when I really _need_ root to have a GUI.
The only convincing use case I've ever come up with is resizing the /home partition using a graphical partition tool; you can't do that with su from a user account because the partition will obviously be busy. =) but it's sufficiently niche that 'just run startx from runlevel 3' is really enough to cover it. or, y'know, 'use a live CD'.