On Sunday 16 March 2003 10:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > I'll give you one scenario where I log in as root all the time... > Install fests. I'm sure all of these people don't want a user james on > their box....another is when a friend calls up and says... It won't work > can you help... I log in as root so I don't have to keep asking them > for the root password... once is enough this way. > > As for the very real problem here. It comes with upgrades. (if an > upgrade shouldn't be done then remove the option from the installer.) > If you are running kdm now, with users hidden ( a prudent move I might > add.) and you upgrade.... You can't log in as anyone! It keeps the old > settings and won't allow you to login period. (had this happen with one > of our senior programmers and boy was he pissed .... kept talking about > getting his solaris box back *grin*) There it is a very real problem. > The only way to fix it is to log in as root from tty1 and edit by hand > kdmrc (or edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop to say gdm not kdm) and restart X > Not a very user friendly option. > > IMAO (yes the A does stand for what you think *grin*) it's a case of > fixing what wasn't really broken. But that's not my say. > > James
And by the way, we have a dm that does not allow root login, but a new config tool that must be run from a gui as root. Anybody have the details on this? -- Greg
