Why can't we log into GUI as root any more?

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:02:12PM +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> I think it makes no sense not to allow it. It doesn't give you any
> security (because it's trivial to log in as root in text mode, edit the

That's not the security problem. The security problem is running large and
complicted GUI programs as root when they were explicitly not designed to do
so.


> config file and then go back to graphical), just annoyance if you do need
> a graphical root session for whatever reason.

Give a "whatever" reason; we'll try to fix it.

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