Let us step back and consider the actual goal of preventing root logins. We want to stop people from logging in as root on their X desktop because it is almost always done out of laziness. We want to discourage these lazy users from logging in as root and using desktop applications, which can be a dangerous thing. The only legitimate reason to allow root login is disaster recovery. The case where /home filesystem is full and logins fail, or /home is remote and inaccessible are cases where graphical non-root logins can fail. So why don't we make root logins from GDM a stripped down desktop with only a terminal and a menu with only configuration tools? This desktop should be ugly and with a very obvious note explaining why they shouldn't be logged in as root. Benefits? - Educates the users. - Prevents future stupid flame wars. Just a thought... I don't particularly care what happens here. I never log in as root on X. Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
