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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