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On Friday 31 March 2006 22:40, Neil Williams wrote: > ............ Logging into a GUI desktop as root > redirects ALL those tunnels directly into the vault. At a stroke you undo > ALL the security inherent in the GNU/Unix permissions model. It's absolute > madness. Debian, by default, doesn't allow root logins. But other distro's such as Mandriva and SuSE do, albeit with a fairly tame sort of warning and a lurid desktop background to remind the user he/she is logged in as root. -- W. Devon ------------- A GNU/Linux user -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html