On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:22:40AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > 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. I agree with that. Gdm has (had?) an "AllowRoot" option that should be enough. A user can always go to a text console and do a manual "startx", and I'm not against allowing that. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
