Re: Gnome Root Warning
Havoc Pennington <[email protected]>
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"Brett I. Holcomb" <[email protected]> writes: > How do you get rid of the warning about "You are logging in as root .. blah > blah blah"? I'm just starting to use Gnome on RH 7.3 and have checked all > the preferences and looked for files in root's home but can't find where to > turn it off. > There's nowhere to turn it off (other than removing the patch that adds it and rebuilding the rpm). As Seth says, logging in as root is basically a bad idea. Though it's true that you have to use the command line to perform some tasks if you don't log in as root, I would consider it a bug whenever we require logging in as root to do something graphically. It's very unsafe to run as root, and not just security-wise; I would expect it to decrease system stability as well, because software bugs and user mistakes have more impact. Havoc