Re: User Experience improvements for Anaconda

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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 15:40:07 +0100,
  Martin Gracik <mgracik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I agree that there are many people doing this, but logging in as root is
> I believe a security risk, and I think we should encourage the users to
> use policies that are more secure. And also, gdm does not allow you to
> login as root by default.

su'ing to root from a normal account has simlar risks. Exploits need to
be a bit more complicated, but once they are script kiddie ready you
don't gain much by having to give two passwords to get full access.

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