Lock screen does not work for root in gnome
Xose Vazquez Perez
xose at wanadoo.es
Tue Oct 19 20:52:49 UTC 2004
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:56:31PM +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>
>>>The LDAP system collapsed (or, more consicely, it somehow beginned to
>>>take 5 minutes to get a GNOME login (where 5-10 sec is normal...). So, i
>>>logged in as root, ran system-config-authentification, turned on user
>>>info cacheing, logged back out, and things worked.
>>
>>what's wrong with logging as any unprivileged user, to open a xterm,
>>to run "su -" and then system-config-authentification ?
>
>
> With LDAP down, unpriviledged users couldn't authenticate.
Always is a good idea to have a second user(unpriviledged) in local
for maintenance, operator or something like this.
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Hello, this is Darl McBride, and I pronounce Linux as UNIX.
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