Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Zeerak Waseem <zeerak.w@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:45:42
Message-Id: op.u3ba9ymbagyv58@zeerak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Block root user from login on xorg GUI by Iain Buchanan
1 On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:08:18 +0100, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
2 wrote:
3
4 > However, if someone has the root password to log in to X, then what's to
5 > stop them changing anything you do now?
6 >
7
8 I've been wondering about the very same thing... Perhaps it's just to only
9 have a root shell and not an entire DE running as root. That's my only
10 (read: only useful) suggestion as to why. Because like you Iain, if
11 someone has the password, they could just undo the changes :-)
12
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14 Zeerak