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

Sun Apr 8 12:54:04 CEST 2012

2012/4/8 Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be>:
+> Op zondag 08 april 2012 10:08:44 schreef Tony Blackwell:
+>> Thanks to Maarten for prompt reply.
+>> 1. Lilo not booting; I can't tell if
+>>
+>>   https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5044
+>> is the same problem; it does concern lilo, but in a raid setting and I
+>> wasn't quite clear on what problem was being described there.
+>
+> anyway, i think the lilo problem will be resolved before release
+>
+>> 2. rpm update failure; Maarten is right, yes is is
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4918
+>>   I'll await beta3
+>>
+>>
+>> While I'm at it, beta2 has lost the ability for root to log in graphically.
+>>  Beta1 was without this on the DVD but upgrades fixed it.  Beta2 does not
+>> honor the flag set in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, where setting AllowRoot
+>> to true has for many releases been all that is required to allow a
+>> graphical root login.   (useful for system admin, no I never go out on the
+>> web as root!)  Intended behaviour or accident? tonyb
+>
+> not sure, but i thought not logging in graphically as root was a feature
+
+Yes, and obviously they have finally closed that easy to open door via kdmrc.
+But maybe there is a reason to login to a gui as root - although in
+all my 17 years of Linux I haven't heard one. And I have never heard
+about any sysadmin who did it with a reason.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+