[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

[Richard Couture]

No Graphical root sounds like a FEATURE rather than a bug. Graphical 
Root is call MS Windows and does to the security of your system what 
Microlimp does to Windoze.

Be thankful for unlooked-for favors and pray the powers that be that no 
one comes along and re-enables MSWindows mode.

Further you might want to put

# Single user mode
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

in your /etc/inittab to assure that no-one can inadvertently put you 
back in Windoze mode...

Also might want to put root in your

/etc/ssh/denyusers

Just a thought. It's my feeling that if we continue compromising 
security to become more friendly, why don't we just stick with MS and 
avoid all of the hooplah???




RRC


On 04/08/2012 06:46 AM, Morgan Leijström wrote:
> söndagen den 8 april 2012 12.54.04 skrev  Wolfgang Bornath:
>> maybe there is a reason to login to a gui as root - although in
>> all my 17 years of Linux I haven't heard one. And I have never heard
>> about any sysadmin who did it with a reason.
>>
>> --
>> wobo
>
>
> Lazyness in my case. Or call it efficiency cause of scarce time.
> I want machines to work for me, do not have all hours to learn everything.
>
> I can not learn everything, even less remember it.
> A GUI session often have lots of useable tools to see what is going on, web
> browser to read documentation of what i am trying to do, can copy to virtual
> terminal, etc.
>
> That is why even my server always runs KDE (but not as root)
>
> Um... when i think about it i have not used GUI as root for a year or so, but
> it was a time saver in the beginning and i might have given up on Linux
> without it.
>
> This is the few sysadmin hours of an own smalll company owner and home server.
>

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