On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 09:18 -0600, Jud Craft wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Rahul Sundaram > <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hence, leave the root-session-X backdoor open, (perhaps with a catch > -- for example, network functionality is disabled in root-session-X -- > so that the only possible errors can come from user error, rather than > security vulnerabilities. how about that?) or come up with another > solution. "No GUI" for the sake of safety is a no-go solution for > many people. > To login as root on a X session does not only generates security vulnerabilities, have you thought of people just dragging and dropping /usr to another location by mistake (I know people that tried), at least on Windows platforms you get a message about the directory being used if you try to move/rename C:\windows, and how many of you have not dragged by mistake a file and dropped it without noticing? (dumb trackpads, long live trackpoints :-P) The root console on GDM is a nice idea, but what about adding access to the GNOME menu System->Administration, use case: I need to add a new user to the system I only manage without a local user for me, some users prefer to add the user using the GUI, instead of running adduser -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
