On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 14:01 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Rahul Sundaram > <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Never once have I felt a real need to tell people to get a root X login for > > any reason at all. > > What if /home is hosed and they need the network (WIFI) to fix it? > How would you get NetworkManager configured from the command line? > How would I get that new kernel that resolves the problem? > > What if /home is hosed, or / and /tmp are full, and system-config-lvm > is needed to help fix it? Or any one of the other splendid GUIs we > now have that are an awful lot less error prone than doing something > from the command line. > > Note that I'm not necessarily in favour of allowing root logins on X > *by default*, its just that I don't like the argument of "I have > never..." being falsely extrapolated to "Nobody will ever ..." So create a user with a homedir of /tmp or some rot, that isn't on your network mounted /home that you can use for maint tasks. IE a completely local user to use for recovery purposes. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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