On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:13 -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:
What if instead of disabling the root account in gdm, we change
root's
default session. Rather than a feature complete gnome-session, we
actually run a fullscreen interface much like firstboot that gives
access to common administrator functionality, Setup Network, Add
Users, Display config, etc etc. Maybe give access to a terminal as
well.
Hopefully, this would discourage normal users from just using root,
but will give a fall back gui to do super user tasks.
I think this would be really cool as a way of providing some "save
myself" types of things.
Jeremy