-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/08 11:52, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 06/16/08 07:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> [snip] >>> >>>> A certain version of SuSE would set the desktop background to red >>>> if you logged in as root. >>> As did Mandrake, when I left it for Debian. I always thought it >>> was a good idea. >> Seems like it would be better to just disallow root logins to X. And >> to use PGP MIME instead of long-ago deprecated inline PGP. > > I use root logins to X, but usually while setting up a system. I work > better with a GUI. I know that's not a cool thing to say on a geek > list, but it's the way my brain works.
Must ... Not ... Make ... Comment ... > When I set up a system, lots of > times there's mount points to create and other things I need to do that > involved a program like Konqueror. > > Also my clients use a program I wrote that needs to be installed as root > for some of the setup scripts, but I needed cross-platform GUI > installer and wasn't going to spend days writing my own, so I settled > on IZPack, which I like so much I've contributed to it. A console > installer was not an option because I needed one installer (try > maintaining 2 installers, one for Windows, one for Linux!) for both > platforms and needed something for people that think the blue "e" > stands for Enternet instead of Internet. The result is needing to use > a GUI installer that has to be run as root. Not my favorite option, > but a necessary one. - From an xterm $ prompt, run "su -p". That will let you run GUI programs as root while logged in as an unpriv user. > On my system, when I'm testing, I can run Xeypher from the command line > so it's not a serious problem and have been willing to walk the few > Linux-using clients of mine through the same process. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhWplUACgkQS9HxQb37XmfG5gCgz9QHrFrcRHjHNt37yBBxE+I3 kEAAoOZNDDhu27bM9XJKNAtq2ZRvih/2 =hwtq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
