On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:17:21PM -0500, Kyle McDonald - Eagle CAD said: > I don't know about linux specifically, but the Solaris login screen has > this same 'command-line' feature. > > The way it works in Solaris is that if 'root' (or anyone really) was > logged in on the console and started the login screen manually, then > the 'commandline' option is disabled for security reasons ( anyone > could walk up to the machine and become the user that is logged in > underneath.) This option is *only* available when the login screen > is started automatically at bootup by init. > > Maybe early releases didn't have this security 'feature'??? >
Thanks for the insight. Most probably this is the reason. Oh, well :( Cheers,
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