<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Brian Wheeler <<a href="mailto:bdwheele@indiana.edu">bdwheele@indiana.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 13:13 +0100, Morgan Olausson wrote: > Hi, I am a non technical user of Fedora. > > I think there should (and finally will) be two different versions: > > (I) For non-technical users a version that just works. Easy to install, > all settings are default. Simply a for free Microsoft Windows > replacement. This is the Linux version that will be most widely spread. > Most users have absolutely no idea of how to use a terminal window, and > with this version they will not need to know it. </div>You don't want non-technical users logging into the machine as root by default no matter what because, as they say: unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. These situations are much better handled with a non-privileged user logging in and then using sudo or the gui equivalent. So the root login thing doesn't really apply here. I think a minimal "yukky" root desktop for maintenance is really the right way to go: it discourages unsafe usage, and it is obvious that you're there to fix something. Brian </blockquote><div> Great, we are on the way to hundreds of "Are You Sure" pop up windows.... There is nothing wrong with root X IMO. </div></div> -- <a href="http://projecthuh.com">projecthuh.com</a> All of my bits are free, are yours? Fedoraproject.org