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Graphical +Root is call MS Windows and does to the security of your system what +Microlimp does to Windoze. + +Be thankful for unlooked-for favors and pray the powers that be that no +one comes along and re-enables MSWindows mode. + +Further you might want to put + +# Single user mode +~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin + +in your /etc/inittab to assure that no-one can inadvertently put you +back in Windoze mode... + +Also might want to put root in your + +/etc/ssh/denyusers + +Just a thought. It's my feeling that if we continue compromising +security to become more friendly, why don't we just stick with MS and +avoid all of the hooplah??? + + + + +RRC + + +On 04/08/2012 06:46 AM, Morgan Leijström wrote: +><i> söndagen den 8 april 2012 12.54.04 skrev Wolfgang Bornath: +</I>>><i> maybe there is a reason to login to a gui as root - although in +</I>>><i> all my 17 years of Linux I haven't heard one. And I have never heard +</I>>><i> about any sysadmin who did it with a reason. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> -- +</I>>><i> wobo +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Lazyness in my case. Or call it efficiency cause of scarce time. +</I>><i> I want machines to work for me, do not have all hours to learn everything. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I can not learn everything, even less remember it. +</I>><i> A GUI session often have lots of useable tools to see what is going on, web +</I>><i> browser to read documentation of what i am trying to do, can copy to virtual +</I>><i> terminal, etc. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> That is why even my server always runs KDE (but not as root) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Um... when i think about it i have not used GUI as root for a year or so, but +</I>><i> it was a time saver in the beginning and i might have given up on Linux +</I>><i> without it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This is the few sysadmin hours of an own smalll company owner and home server. +</I>><i> +</I> +-- +LinuxCabal Asociación Civil +Ing. 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