On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:36:41PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrea Bencini wrote: > >I install FC4 with KDE; when I login with "root" and password I receive > >this > >message: "Root logins are not allowed". > >I can login only via ssh (root + psw). > >Can you help me? > >Thank > >Andrea > > > > This is bad manners. You should be logging in as an ordinary > user, and using "su -" or "sudo" to do your root activities. > > It is good policy not to log in as root. > > That's why the default is to disallow it. > > Mike I am curious. Could someone give me a concrete example of why it is more dangerous to log in to a gui interface as root as opposed to logging in as an ordinary user and su - to root? -- ======================================================================= Know Thy User. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
