On Thursday 29 April 2004 23:05, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On April 29, 2004 14:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Thursday 29 April 2004 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > o No longer any option to login to X as root. I know they > > > discouraged this anyway, but when doing sys admin work, it > > > was more convenient that repeatedly supplying the root > > > password, and certainly safer than having the various admin > > > tools remember the root password (I'm surprised they even > > > offer such an option, since it grants root access to anyone > > > with physical access). > > > > </snip> > > > > Ron, this is not enterily true. I'll take it that you use the > > default display manager, something like mandkrakeDM, but if you > > change that to KDM (K Display Manager) you'll get the option to > > log in as root. When doing so, you'll be presented with a red > > screen, some warnings about running as root, a button to log > > out immidiately and no icons. By ignoring all this, you are > > root in X and can run whatever you like, and destroy whatever > > Murphy's law dictates. > > > > To change your display manager, go to System --> Configuration > > --> Configure your computer --> System --> Display Manager. > > > > HTH > > Kaj Haulrich. > > Interesting. I'm not going to try it now because I have too much > on the go to log out, but I'll try it later. The red screen and > warning are exactly what I remember. > > So was 10.0 CE using KDM by default? Or did MdkKDM have this > option and they took it out for the official release? >
No, no, and no. > Do you know what the diffs are between the two DMs? > Appearance, and the option to log in as root in KDM. > Personally, I don't see how it's any harder to destroy things at > the command line than at the GUI. If anything, the GUI has more > "are you sure?" prompts than the command line does. Didn't do me > any harm anyway. > > Anyway, thanks for the tip. You are welcome. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 *
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