[CentOS] Lost my menu options again - KDE messes with Gnome?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Oct 3 14:14:48 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:00 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> > You should never login to GUI as root. Never as in not ever.
>
> Okay. Out of curiosity, why not?
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long standing policy of least privileges necessary. KDE wouldn't allow
it at all. Way too much software inadequately audited for security
issues and you could clobber anything.
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> > If you want to test your theory as more general, create a new user and
> > log in as that user (you can delete the user and his files/home
> > directory easily, later).
>
>
> I'd like to try this, but for some reason, I can't get a new user going.
> I create the user like this:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# adduser -ppassword -m roger
>
> But when I try to log in at the GUI prompt to get into Gnome, it always
> password incorrect. Am I creating the user wrong?
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useradd -p PASSWORD -m roger
^ needs a ^
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| what are you trying to accomplish here?
Craig
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