From: "Zeerak Waseem" <zeerak.w@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:45:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.u3ba9ymbagyv58@zeerak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258067298.26857.29.camel@localhost>
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:08:18 +0100, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
wrote:
> However, if someone has the root password to log in to X, then what's to
> stop them changing anything you do now?
>
I've been wondering about the very same thing... Perhaps it's just to only
have a root shell and not an entire DE running as root. That's my only
(read: only useful) suggestion as to why. Because like you Iain, if
someone has the password, they could just undo the changes :-)
--
Zeerak
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 2:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 20:01 [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI Mick
2009-11-12 20:39 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-12 20:56 ` Mick
2009-11-12 21:08 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-12 21:34 ` Paul Hartman
2009-11-12 21:46 ` Mick
2009-11-12 21:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 22:15 ` Mick
2009-11-13 15:39 ` Paul Hartman
2009-11-12 22:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-12 22:18 ` Mick
2009-11-12 23:08 ` Iain Buchanan
2009-11-13 2:45 ` Zeerak Waseem [this message]
2009-11-14 0:24 ` Mick
2009-11-14 7:01 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-14 7:07 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-11-14 19:32 ` Mick
2009-11-14 20:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 5:15 ` Stroller
2009-11-15 7:44 ` Dale
2009-11-15 8:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 12:47 ` Stroller
2009-11-15 15:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 8:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-15 10:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 13:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-14 9:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-14 10:12 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-14 15:13 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-14 19:30 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-14 20:46 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-14 22:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-15 9:22 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-11-15 14:40 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-11-15 16:12 ` Alan McKinnon
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