Running as root ( was Re: Change Permissions (snip)..Problem Solved )

[Derek Broughton]

Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:56:32 -0400
> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Which, yet again, doesn't mean I support the use of a KDE/Gnome desktop
>> as root - though I _do_ still have a "Konqueror as Root" menu option (I'm
>> pretty sure Ubuntu had this until Breezy, Debian certainly had it, and I
>> missed it).
> 
> A few years ago when I was starting with Linux I ran Mandrake  for a while
> - if you logged in to KDE as root, you got a brilliant fire-engine red
> desktop background, and a warning that you were doing something
> dangerous :-)
> 
> I think perhaps that is a bit too much hand-holding though .

I've always used Debian-type distros.  Corel Linux & Debian both gave me the
option to login to KDE as root.  When I started using Kubuntu, I just never
missed that ability.
-- 
derek