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?
---- 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. ----
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@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?
---- useradd -p PASSWORD -m roger ^ needs a ^ space | | what are you trying to accomplish here?
Craig