linux-kernel - Re: AUTO LOGIN BUG

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Message-ID: <20131.1189137184@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:53:04 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Sean Robert McGuffee <sean.mcguffee@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AUTO LOGIN BUG

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:48:05 MDT, Sean Robert McGuffee said:

> machine. For those who make the argument that someone logged in as root 
> might break the machine by doing something they shouldn't, I would say 
> it's already broken without being root.

Hint 1: If you're not smart enough to figure out how to fix your system so that
it does what you want, you're not smart enough to run as root all the time.

Hint 2: You're posting to a kernel list about a non-kernel problem. See hint 1.

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