Lock screen does not work for root in gnome

[Xose Vazquez Perez]

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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