F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

[Denis Leroy]

Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:28 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:01 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:29:33AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> > > You can at run level 3. You can even start X after that.
>> > 
>> > You're assuming all users of a system are technical.  That is not the case.
>>
>> How would a non-technical user know to log in as root?
> 
> I knew about the root user in *nix long before I knew about run levels 
> and how to start X manually.  It's like the Administrator account in 
> Windows (at least, that's how most non-techies would understand it).  
> Besides, some references online will frequently mention logging-in as 
> root, even if it's not the most advisable.  So there are many vectors 
> through which someone can know about logging in as root without having 
> the strongest technical background.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a "launch console window" or "launch 
terminal window" option or button on the GDM login screen ? That 
certainly would solve the issues of people not familiar with getty 
screens and/or runlevels...