[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

Tue Apr 10 22:27:46 CEST 2012

On 04/10/2012 12:26 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2012/4/10 Frank Griffin<ftg at roadrunner.com>:
+>> On 04/10/2012 12:11 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>> Common sense? Oh, wait, this is usually broken by people who put
+>>> principles above common sense. Pls lets put aside with such things like
+>>> "freedom and choice by all means and don't deny me my suicide!" or "Upstream
+>>> rules above everything!". Pls let common sense rule. This is not a technical
+>>> issue, so let's switch on reason.
+>>
+>> I have no problem with disabling DM support for root login by default, or
+>> not documenting how to enable it, or having the red screen.  That's common
+>> sense.  Deliberately breaking a feature with which you don't agree is just
+>> plain high-handed and intrusive.
+> Then you have a problem here. Mageia does the former, to which you
+> agree as being common sense. But at the same time you call this common
+> sense "plain high-handed and intrusive".
+>
+
+IINM, the OP said that he went into kdmrc and manually changed the 
+keyword he needed in order to enable DM root login, but that KDM had 
+been changed to ignore that keyword no matter what the setting in kdmrc.
+
+Having the keyword set to disable the feature is common sense.  Patching 
+KDM to refuse to acknowledge it even if it's enabled is not.
+