Lock screen does not work for root in gnome

[Warren Togami]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 16:16 -0700, Jon Savage wrote:
> 
>>>>Well, I know that, but it works fine in KDE.
>>>>And if somebody insist to log in as root, it is even more dangerous that
>>>>he cannot lock the screen.
>>
>>If logging in as root to a graphical session truly is a badthing(tm)
>>could one not argue that gnome/kde/yourfaviorite gui sessions should
>>be disabled for root by default? GUI admin tools are still available
>>from the application menu(s) in user sessions, along with all of the
>>cli goodness from a terminal + su -/sudo whatever.
>>
>>(fully expecting to get my butt kicked for this suggestion)
>>
> 
> 
> I agree with you, fwiw. Any reason to need to log in as root is a bug.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 

Maybe SuSE or Mandrake's scary red background if you login as root is a 
good idea.  Should we implement that for RHEL4?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com