Basil Mohamed Gohar wrote:
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:28 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:01 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 08:29:33AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > You can at run level 3. You can even start X after that.
>
> You're assuming all users of a system are technical. That is not the case.
How would a non-technical user know to log in as root?
I knew about the root user in *nix long before I knew about run levels
and how to start X manually. It's like the Administrator account in
Windows (at least, that's how most non-techies would understand it).
Besides, some references online will frequently mention logging-in as
root, even if it's not the most advisable. So there are many vectors
through which someone can know about logging in as root without having
the strongest technical background.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a "launch console window" or "launch
terminal window" option or button on the GDM login screen ? That
certainly would solve the issues of people not familiar with getty
screens and/or runlevels...
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