Root login in rawhide and display managers

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at hi.is
Wed Sep 19 14:22:13 UTC 2007


Richi Plana wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 07:37 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>   
>> Can this information be included on the login screen, somewhere small and
>> discreet, like in faded text on the bottom left or something?  I was
>> unaware of it and would have found it useful one evening some time ago.
>>     
>
> How about suggest a change in GDM so that when a user tries to log-in
> with the "root" account, it displays a message box informing them that
> root login is disabled and what their options are?
> --
>   
Your currently trying to log in as root ( oh did I type root I was gonna 
write smurkydoo )
The root account is currently disable please press <ctrl><alt> F1 type 
root as your Login name and the root password enable the root account
exit then try again..

lol....

Best regards
               Johann B.


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Johann B. Gudmundsson. RHCE,CCSA
Unix System Engineer.
IT Management.
Reiknistofnun University of Iceland.
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