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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