On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:11:52 -0400 Bill Davidsen wrote: > While the intent of preventing root is admirable, in practice it means that > you > have to type in the root password repeatedly when doing system configuration, > since every tool is going to ask for it. The previous pop-up warning was > probably as effective for competent people, and incompetent people shouldn't > have root anyway.
Yea, I want to know where this list is of actual documented cases of people screwing up their systems by using GUI tools in ways they couldn't have with the command line (rm -rf / was a well known warning before there even was a GUI :-). -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
