12 Aug
2015
12 Aug
'15
6:16 p.m.
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 01:45:08 pm Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 12 August 2015 16:49:56 Felix Miata
wrote:
Well, I have always understood from other Debian users that it does, I have
used several different DEs with Debian, all with the same set-up, and it does
not apply to all other distros whichever DE you use. I have not had a GUI
root log-in since I abandoned a brief spell with OpenSuse many years ago.
I have always installed Debian with root enabled. This may make a difference.
I don't remember ever being offered that option when I installed. Nor a few other
things that I was used to, like being able to configure my network as opposed to the
installation just using DHCP because it found DHCP on the network. :-(
Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some specific
invocation that I missed?
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Debian has decided not to allow GUI root log-ins. It is not a case of
I'm not so sure whether it has anything to do with Debian, but rather the
default tdm config file specifies safer when there are alternatives
available.