Re: Root Logins in X...

[Pierre-Yves <pingou pingoured fr>]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 10:10 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> > I'm just kidding, but I'm not sure how promoting good behavior is a
> > bad thing.
>
> A few more ideas, off the top of my head:
>
> A "Rescue Mode" in GDM which goes to a root session with minimal apps,
> marked as "Rescue Mode", rather than a root X login (even though it does
> need root credentials).
>
> A prompt upon the first time a user tried to login to a normal X session
> via GDM as root (separate from the "Rescue Mode"), warning them of the
> risk they're taking, with a small checkbox that says something like
> "never show me this warning again".

To me it sounds like the original proposal of this thread from Warren.

It would be fine by me :)

Regards,

Pierre