Lock screen does not work for root in gnome

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:27:18PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> I agree with you, fwiw. Any reason to need to log in as root is a bug.

Then gdm is a bug 8) You need root login when things like ldap go away otherwise
you can't login. When you can fix gdm to automatically switch to telepathy mode
let me know. Similarly if the system develops problems and you need to boot
to single user you need root.

Keep to "root should not be needed in normal situations" and I'd agree

Alan