F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Shawn Starr sstarr at platform.com
Mon Jan 26 15:31:10 UTC 2009


>-----Original Message-----
>From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Bendler
>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 5:49 AM
>To: Development discussions related to Fedora
>Subject: Re: F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!


>On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Shawn Starr <sstarr at platform.com> wrote:

>[...]
>I'm going to jump into this flamefest, Can we STOP with the "Mother knows best" menality in Fedora? I have needed to log in as root with X a few times.     >Stop turning Fedora into a 'Ubuntu'.

>Then you have done something wrong. I never used a root login on X and I administrate a lot of UNIX systems (not only LNX). There is no reason where >you need it (except a wrong system installation or system design).
>
>Regards, Thomas

Maybe you're new to Rawhide, It's not standard 'administration' when your playing with bleeding edge things that might just fsck up :-)




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