On Tuesday, 05 December 2017 at 08:28, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: [...] > This has been under discussion for a while [at least 1,2,3]. > We currently only allow root to log in emergency or rescue mode, > following what sysvinit systems did traditionally. We simply call > sulogin, and that's the only thing it allows. I'd like to see this > changed to allow either > a) any user to log in, or > b) only users from a specific group like wheel. > Option b) would possibly be more palatable to some people but would > allow additional support in the login programs and/or pam configuration. > So yeah, it's something that should be fixed, but it's not as trivial > as it would seem at first.
Then why disable root at all? What if there are no local user accounts, only via a directory service and network is down? This change is clearly not well thought-out. If anything, the redundancy should be reduced on the GNOME side, not anaconda side, as removing stuff from anaconda forces alternative desktop environments to reimplement what GNOME does. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
