[mythtv-users] Disk Space / not-deleting-recordings

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi R.,

Monday, April 25, 2016, 11:44:15 PM, you wrote:

> On 04/24/2016 01:48 PM, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>> On Saturday, April 23, 2016 07:05:09 PM R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>
>>  >
>>
>>  > The dev attitude is like the devs at Fedora and Ubuntu who will not let
>>
>>  > you log in as root "because you shouldn't do that"... I know that, but
>>
>>  > when I am setting up a brand new install it is damn convenient to be
>>
>>  > able to re-boot and log in as root. I do NOT need to told that I can't
>>
>>  > DO that, because I shouldn't do that so we won't let you.
>>
>> Am I missing something? I've used RedHat since 5.2 in the mid-1990s and
>> RHEL and Fedora and CentOS in the last decade on a couple dozen
>> desktops, laptops, and servers, and I've never been denied logging in as
>> root at any point after I pull out the install CD/DVD.
>>
>> Which Fedora have you been using?

> IIRC it was about Fedora 19 or 20 when it started to be 'abnormal' to be
> able to log in as root. The fix was some editing in /etc/pam.d/kdm 
> dealing with root.

> I don't remember exactly what I did in F21. The pam.d setup changed 
> extensively.

> In F23 I had to change the minimum UID in Sytem Settings -> 
Startup/Shutdown ->> Login (SDDM) to 0 from 1000.

> (Which made booting rather weird for a few reboots, as all 'users' were
> then shown in the login splash screen... eventually that stopped.

> It wasn't particularly difficult, but it was treated as a State Secret.

Just use Gentoo, Only the default settings for ssh block root. But
that is easily changed.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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