Re: F11 and super user

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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 18:03 +0000, Croombe F. Pensom wrote:
I am somewhat lazy in that I find a
GUI better to use than the command line even though I am familiar with
the latter and can use most of its commands.

This is a false dichotomy. The recommended procedure is to use GUI tools
via "su". Logging in as root is useful on the rare occasions when you
literally cannot log in as a user (forgotten password,
reformatting /home or whatever) but you definitely don't want to do it
in the normal use of the system.

(BTW the prevention of root login is a Gnome thing, not a Linux or
Fedora thing. KDE users don't have this problem -- but of course they
shouldn't log in as root either).

poc

Leaving the question aside of whether the practice of allowing such is "recommended" or not, I have noticed that since F11 now requires editing /etc/pam.d/gdm-password as well as /etc/pam.d/gdm, I've done at least one update where it overwrote gdm-password and I had to redo the "add the '#'" (it happened twice, but the first time I didn't have enough proof that it was the update).

Paul

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