FC2 test1: install glitches and comments (resend, last one was too big)

[Rick Johnson]

Ricky Ng-Adam wrote:
>> This can be done via the menu when configuring the login screen. 
>> Putting it less in the open discourages this overall bad practice.
> 
> 
> Yes... Bad practice on the server I understand, but on my own, personal, 
> single user laptop? What is the reasoning?  Well, sure this is not 
> Lindows or MDK, but no reason to be as friendly as possible with user's 
> who have this on their laptop or desktop.

Perhaps, but I'd hate to lose my laptop and give the next guy one less 
step to get my data. The 5-10 second inconvenience is worth that small 
piece of mind - granted anyone with skills can easily circumvent that 
anyway.

> I think it is much worse to have the "Login Screen Setup" with the 
> Security tab having "Allow root to login with GDM" and "Allow root to 
> login remotely with GDM".

Agreed. Ideally we'd be forced to not be able to use root at the GDM 
login at all (at least remotely), but rather su - for everything or be 
prompted for a root password case by case. However, that could be seen 
as a bit too "nannyish".

-Rick

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