On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:15 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> +1
root should just login on the console, then startx and be happy. That'd
be my version of "safe mode" anyway ;-P.
Nils
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