On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Petrus de Calguarium<kwhiskerz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Charles Butterfield wrote: > >>... > > Does it help if more people (dis)agree? I will add my voice. > > - I like a root login option, especially when first setting > up the system, as it is helpful to do things as root. I > consciously choose to use root and realize that I MYSELF > could be exposing MY OWN computer to risks. I ALWAYS > uncomment %wheel in sudoers and add myself to the wheel > group, but just to get to do this is sometimes difficult, as > it gets constantly more awkward to even have the privileges > to edit sudoers (fortunately, fedora is one of the more > permissive distros with regard to editing sudoers). It is > ESSENTIAL that a user be able to modify system settings on > his OWN computer, if he chooses to do so. I fully support > your outrage. Luckily, as a kde user, kdm has not been hit my > the "root nazi" bug, so I am not hugely affected. If you need to login as root into X to "set up the system" you are doing something wrong. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list