On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:06:55 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2011 17:32:19 Camaleón wrote: >> I was one of those newbies that sometimes logged as root when I was >> giving my first steps in Linux. I remember in that time (2003, KDE >> 3.2.x, IIRC) there was a background image¹ for root login with bright >> red and plenty of bombs. Yes, bombs, for the user to understand the >> risk of having that session open :-) >> >> Nowadays, KDE and also GNOME discourage using root GUI sessions but it >> still possible to get them. > > That bomb screen was, I think, special to SuSE (with which I also > started. But I didn't use it for long because I couldn't stand YaST).
<mode go-opensuse-go on> YaST is one of the best tools an admin (and a user) can find! And now is GPL :-) </mode go-opensuse-go off> > And yes, I too logged in as root in those days. But only because I had > no idea at that stage what else to do for anything that needed root > access. He, he... me also :-P > I *think* that it is Debian, not KDE, that won't key you log in to a GUI > session as root. There certainly was a phase when Debian wouldn't and > PPLinuxOS, also with KDE, would. (No, I didn't make a habit of logging > in as root. I tried once, and logged out again immediately - it wasn't > just the cat who was killed by curiosity!) I don't think so. KDE disabled root logins by default in KDM since some time ago, while GNOME (GDM) was still allowing it (not sure is that's remains true by now). And I speak here for no specific distro, this has been happenning in other distributions as well. But distributions are changing/revisiting their default settings every year... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.03.17.28...@gmail.com
