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

Wed Apr 11 22:45:29 CEST 2012

ftg: "I thought the OP said that this feature was controlled by a 
+keyword in kdmrc.  I assumed that that meant it was a feature supplied 
+as part of KDM.  Are you saying that it was a MDV/MGA extension to start 
+with, and that it was withdrawn because we no longer wanted to support it ?"
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+As the OP, I'll comment that although the config was AllowRoot=true, in 
+/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, all previous versions of Mandriva/Mageia 
+going back a number of years, right up to M2beta1 after online updates, 
+have supported setting this flag as allowing graphical root access to 
+gnome as well as kde environments.  I hear the impassioned objections of 
+some of our leaders, and admit that the weight of expressed opinion in 
+this thread is against it, but a number of us have found the ability to 
+do this useful at times and I request its restoration.
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+I'd be happy as ftg commented that it still have the same red screen 
+warning etc etc as before - agree it makes sense not to be obvious.
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