Re: root user warning

[CaT <cat zip com au>]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:44:59PM +0200, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, CaT wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:16:51PM +1000, Craig Heading wrote:
> > > is there any way of getting rid of that warning that comes up in gnome
> > > when you log in as root. its annoying.
> > > thank you
> > 
> > IU think that's the point. :) You should make yourself a normal user, gnome
> > with that and then su to root when need be. Running as root opens you up to
> > all sorts of possible messes.
> > 
> > On the flip side, it's your box and you should be able to do whatever you 
> > want. Even the stupid things. :)
> 
> The consensus was:
> If you still want to use Gnome as root, you should be able to figure it
> out yourself ;-)

Well. I suppose. :) It's just that such dictates annoy the living crap outta
me.

I'd say the most direct way of doing so would be to rip it out of the source
code and recompile. If it works make a patch and just reapply.

But then I haven't looked that deeply into gnome so I dunno if there's a 
config option. :)

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