Root Logins in X...

[King InuYasha]

You will not be able to log in if your home subdirectory and/or its
associated partition is full. Everytime you log in, it writes something, and
if it can't... Well, unless you can log in as root, you are stuck.

2009/1/26 Thomas Bendler <ml at bendler-net.de>

> 2009/1/22 Dr. Diesel <dr.diesel at gmail.com>
>
>> [...]
>> Not sure how or why we would try to prevent utter stupidity!  I am firmly
>> against forcing uses in any direction.
>> Please just make it easy to switch back.
>>
>
> A root login on X is not nessaccary, in no situation (except the design of
> your installation is crap or you switch to init S and you have password
> based login enabled). But it cause big problems if you talk about audit and
> other nice security and controls. So for what reason should there be a root
> login in X. It is not even needed in a console. Everything could be done
> with normal user rights and escalation of privilegies on specific tasks.
>
> Regars, Thomas
>
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