automatic root login, gdm

[Lewi]

ok thanks all, I will considered it

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:21:34AM -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 00:59, Ben Stringer wrote:
> 
> > As per Lamont's mail, this is a bad idea as you can no longer limit what
> > gets changed on the systems you support.
> > 
> > If you decide to proceed regardless, look at putting the
> > "redhat-config-*" utilities under sudo, so normal users can run them. At
> > least then you can configure sudo to log the usage of these commands.
> > This is not so bad as opening up root to everyone.
> > 
> > > I try in gdm-config, that automatic login only allow uid > 500 ?
> > 
> > You _definately_ don't want to remove the root password or allow
> > automatic root login.
> 
>     As an alternative, how about creating a webmin account, and allowing
> SOME things to be changed...a very narrow set of choices...so as to keep
> the hijynx down to a minimum?   Just a thought...
> 
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