On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:05:25AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > What's the rationale (again?) for disabling root login? > I assume its to make sure that if your LDAP or NIS services fail you > are totally screwed and cannot rescue the machine. Proposed alternative: enable root logins, but customize the default root GUI environment so it is a clear and simple rescue/configuration workspace, not just another user's desktop. At BU, we've been doing this for a long time -- you get system-config-users and a terminal window and that's it. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
