> Where does it end ... more wizards and hand holding, small animated > characters to help guide people through, while at the same time removing > anything sharp so users don't cut themselves? > > I can understand telling users running X as root is bad, but removing > the ability to do so seems a bit nanny. > Removing the ability to do so, by default. NOT removing the ability forever. I don't want to see an upstream checkin of xorg-x11 that removes root- run access. but I'd love for fedora core 4 to point and laugh at you if you try to login as root w/o modifying the defaults. -sv