Root Logins in X...

[Dr. Diesel]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Brian Wheeler <bdwheele at indiana.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 08:35 -0500, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> >
>
>
> Yuk, no.  More like a desktop where things not related to sysadmin
> aren't immediately obvious.  Things like openoffice, media players,
> games, etc could be hidden.  If you know what you're doing and you need
> them, no problem:  you know what you're doing :)  But if you're the
> "lazy" sort that has come up in these discussions, then you're going to
> want to use a normal login to do your day-to-day tasks like you should.
>
>
> > There is nothing wrong with root X IMO.
> >
>
> Not in and of itself, no.  Of course, there's nothing wrong (in theory)
> with logging into windows as administrator every time...
>
> The problem comes in where people use root by default and there's a
> security exploit which gives it control of the machine.  Or when a
> newbie decides to clean stuff up with the file manager and gets carried
> away.  Or accidentially "dials" the hard disk...
>
> Making root logins unpalatable goes a long way to stop users from
> complaining that Linux sucks...
>
> Brian
>

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.



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