On Sunday 03 July 2011 17:32:19 Camaleón wrote: > I was one of those newbies that sometimes logged as root when I was > giving my first steps in Linux. I remember in that time (2003, KDE 3.2.x, > IIRC) there was a background image¹ for root login with bright red and > plenty of bombs. Yes, bombs, for the user to understand the risk of > having that session open :-) > > Nowadays, KDE and also GNOME discourage using root GUI sessions but it > still possible to get them.
That bomb screen was, I think, special to SuSE (with which I also started. But I didn't use it for long because I couldn't stand YaST). And yes, I too logged in as root in those days. But only because I had no idea at that stage what else to do for anything that needed root access. I *think* that it is Debian, not KDE, that won't key you log in to a GUI session as root. There certainly was a phase when Debian wouldn't and PPLinuxOS, also with KDE, would. (No, I didn't make a habit of logging in as root. I tried once, and logged out again immediately - it wasn't just the cat who was killed by curiosity!) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107031806.55703.lisi.re...@gmail.com
