On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 10:51 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 05:53 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:27:18PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > I agree with you, fwiw. Any reason to need to log in as root is a bug. > > > > Then gdm is a bug 8) You need root login when things like ldap go away otherwise > > you can't login. > > A lot of sites using LDAP probably also use NFS (or otherwise networked) > home directories, and so if you can't contact the LDAP server, you're > unlikely to be able to get to the NFS server either, and thus you don't > have any access to your data. So what use is it to log in as root? Because root can typically login b/c: root account/pw is local root homedir is local root can fix the problem if it's just a futzed network adapter. -sv
