Erik Hemdal wrote: > On the gnome-list, a posting noted that one can bypass the screensaver > anyway with CTRL-ALT-F1, so logging in as root is dangerous. But I > tried this, and while I can bypass the screensaver, I still must log in > to my virtual terminals. So no loss of security. If root did a graphical login, you're right. But if root has started the X session with "startx" in one of the virtual terminal, you can go to that virtual terminal, do a Ctrl-C (killing X) and get a root shell. Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
