From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5711 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jun 2003 00:43:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5861 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2003 00:43:21 -0000 From: Mike Frysinger Reply-To: vapier@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:43:20 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306252043.20034.vapier@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] I've Got Root Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Good Work, Lads! X-Archives-Salt: 5e9f50bd-f3b1-4cce-81fd-37719fa17b63 X-Archives-Hash: e8bea953b86a8eecff9dac6e735e49e0 On Wednesday 25 June 2003 20:21, Stroller wrote: > If there really are folks out there reading mail from their root account (I > mean, _is this possible?_), surely we need to be educating them better..? on my desktop i run everything as root ... my desktop is the only time i'll do such a thing of course ;) just makes X/games/sounds/everything easier w/out worrying about sudo/su. > I was really quite surprised when an redhat-newbie acquaintance recently > showed me it was possible to log in as root to the GUI on a modern Linux > system. I mean: why does the (kdm?) graphical login window permit this..? it's all about choice ... if you choose to login as root then fine ... dont restrict someone to do what they want ;) after all, just like Owen Gunden pointed out, users are free to do whatever they want with their own machines. i choose to run my desktop as a sacrifical box; reinstall if i get hax0red ... i keep everything important on a secured server anyways ;) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list