[060456F]

After reading this thread I thought of adding a question which I face with Fedora 10. Can anybody login as root in Fedora 10 as in Fedora 9. I typed 'root' as username and my password in the passwd field. It says Authentication failed. But in a normal user account I could do administrative tasks after entering '$ su - ' command.And this also accepts my root password. My question is ; Whether Fedora 10 has disabled root login as in Ubuntu ? Or is there a way to enable/disable it ?

[saikee]

I haven't tried it with F10 or F11 but the trend is that new Linux will deter root access to a desktop hence I would not be surprised that all sorts of hurdles are in place to prevent it. Thus if F10 allows a user to log in as root then it may be forced to allow access to the graphic desktop.

Linux users should learn to survive to work as an ordinary user in desktop and use the root privilege only in the terminal mode. That would make Linux safe and not vulnerable to attack and infection as the MS systems.

If one is denied access a file in desktop one can always go into a root terminal to change the file ownership to make it accessible. It is a bit of pain at the beginning but it is the file ownership that makes Linux safer than other systems.

The theory is when an outsider attacking a Linux all he could do is to trash the files belong to the user. The system files are owned by the root and cannot be touched.

Majority of the current distros still allows the user to override the desktop setting for a root login, if one is getting desperate. There are also distros, like the Slax family, that operate as Live CD and can permit root login without consequence because the system changes are not stored.

[060456F]

Thanks Saikee for your important comments.
I found that the root login to the GUI is disabled by default as in Ubuntu.I also found how re-enable it.
But enabling that doesn't mean that I always login into that. Fine I could study a new thing. I always preferred working as root, and never came across a dangerous situation. Anyway I'll try to work as a normal user hereafter as this would be more secure.