Lock screen does not work for root in gnome

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Oct 19 15:22:40 UTC 2004


> Where does it end ... more wizards and hand holding, small animated
> characters to help guide people through, while at the same time removing
> anything sharp so users don't cut themselves? 
> 
> I can understand telling users running X as root is bad, but removing
> the ability to do so seems a bit nanny. 
> 

Removing the ability to do so, by default.

NOT removing the ability forever.

I don't want to see an upstream checkin of xorg-x11  that removes root-
run access.

but I'd love for fedora core 4 to point and laugh at you if you try to
login as root w/o modifying the defaults.

-sv





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