Warren Togami wrote:
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.
+1. At one point I had my box set up that way (not sure if it still is, or not); root login would get... twm + xterm. Why? Because I would use it when things went wrong, and because generally I can fix it with a console, or /limited/ use of X apps. And because running xterm in X is still light-years better than a text-mode console. (Yes, even if KMS worked on my system - which it doesn't - because I can take advantage of all three screens I have hooked up with multiple xterms open at a time.)
Personally, I'd even suggest the same setup, twm + xterm. It certainly qualifies as 'ugly' ;-).
Oh... Michal's right about one thing, though; xclock (in text mode, please!) would be a nice addition if we set this up as default.
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