F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

[Dave Airlie]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 21:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> 
> > 
> > And how do you propose that a user login to fix a problem when they call 
> > tech support saying "I get a blank screen when I login"?   I'm curious, 
> > because these are real world cases where the GUI login fails. 
> 
> If the GUI login, your fallback is command line, obviously. Having had 
> support experience for a good number of years, I can tell you that, 
> instructing people to type some command is far more easier as well.
> 

I don't understand the difference between dropping the user to a
console, and just starting gnome-terminal + metacity when they login as
root on the console.

Or even xterm + twm.

They get the same power to destroy.

disabling root login just seems like the wrong answer, a hack to
workaround the fact that we can't fully enable selinux.

Dave.