Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 22:57 schrieb Rainer Krienke:
The decision if one logs on as root or not should clearly be left to the admin of the system. In general its not useful to work as root but in some cases (software installation, administraion) where you need root access and have to deal with graphical installers etc it *really* is useful. Of course one can use kdesu or sudo but this can be really be cumbersome compared to beeing root. If you know what you do you should be able to do it even if some folks think its not good.
Sure. Nobody forbids you to do something stupid. But then you have to deal with people telling you that this is stupid.
So leave the decision to the admin of the system. If you want to force someone to do something or not to do something, then this is windows behaviour and not really useful at all.
Hey, just to mention: You are on Linux. You can configure an incredible amount of options (see this thread for the option to login as root). In the worst case, hey, who cares, this is open source, so just change it. On Linux you never can be forced to anything, so it never can be like Windows.
Have a nice day Rainer
Greetings, Daniel