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On Wednesday 25 June 2003 20:21, Stroller wrote: |
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> If there really are folks out there reading mail from their root account (I |
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> mean, _is this possible?_), surely we need to be educating them better..? |
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on my desktop i run everything as root ... my desktop is the only time i'll do |
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such a thing of course ;) |
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just makes X/games/sounds/everything easier w/out worrying about sudo/su. |
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> I was really quite surprised when an redhat-newbie acquaintance recently |
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> showed me it was possible to log in as root to the GUI on a modern Linux |
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> system. I mean: why does the (kdm?) graphical login window permit this..? |
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it's all about choice ... if you choose to login as root then fine ... dont |
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restrict someone to do what they want ;) |
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after all, just like Owen Gunden <ogunden@××××××××××××.edu> pointed out, users |
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are free to do whatever they want with their own machines. i choose to run |
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my desktop as a sacrifical box; reinstall if i get hax0red ... i keep |
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everything important on a secured server anyways ;) |
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-mike |
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