On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 12:10 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > A little CLI typing will fix right up that lack of a GUI root login. > Sometimes it's necessary. A suggestion, though: when you do manage to get > root in a GUI, make the background a bright, solid red to remind yourself of > where you are. > > But I'm hoping Debian's paranoia will never go away. I use Debian because of > what I consider it's (relative) security and reliability. As an admin, I like > that the software at least tries to keep me from shooting myself in the foot. > > The multi-level releases are a good idea, IMHO. If I want my servers to > really work, I can use stable. If I want to check out a little more modern > (and possibly buggy) software, I can use one of the others -- with lots of > beta testers. > > I hope Debian's paranoia is never 'tamed.' As long as there are workarounds > like startx and su -, and sudo...
I recommend to read about su and sudo and how to set up or disable such accounts, with and without password required. Policykit, setuid etc. and how to set up a DE manually, e.g. how to start the display manager. After knowing all this, it's easy to log in as root for the desktop environment, but nobody with this knowledge will do this. 2 Cents, Ralf -- 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/1353700772.6366.65.camel@q
