Re: Gnome Root Warning

Havoc Pennington <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.os.redhat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"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
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