On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:32:13PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > Maybe SuSE or Mandrake's scary red background if you login as root is a > > good idea. Should we implement that for RHEL4? > Disable root graphical logins. > Period. > make it so gdm or kdm or xdm just exit. Or do it what I do -- make it launch a minimalist environment which presents only the user manager tool, and some text explaining how to create a normal user with administrative access. (We also configure the wheel group with sudo and usermode sudo-like power, but that wouldn't be strictly necessary.) > hell, you could make the xinitrc script handle it: > if your uid is 0 then you throw up a hate-filled messaged and exit. That's what we used to do. Well, except instead of 'hate-filled', it was educational. And there was a 'okay, let me do it anyway' button that you could pick after 30 seconds. > EOD. Heh. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
