Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CWhat_a_Linux_root_user_can_do_-_and_8_ways?= =?UTF-8?Q?_you_should_absolutely_never_use_it=E2=80=9D?= Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:06:03 +0100 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <10koqeb$1i9u5$2@dont-email.me> <10kq1sl$314kf$1@news1.tnib.de> <10kq83d$20kk7$2@dont-email.me> <99t74mxr57.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10kropj$2hv00$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vM1Q/SnGIrbscVRhWBhRXgjKjy1QL35AS6OnYUAPBHMwoYReGm X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:2j7wc76+EBhaBLso2sPNiC18ljI= sha256:6yCYmbhIpfHbBihgp8GXj3e7VEBmAlfY0/mGHnK7L38= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10kropj$2hv00$4@dont-email.me> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81462 On 2026-01-22 00:51, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:32:57 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> When repairing the computer, /home is out of commission, and text >> login does not work, for some reason. > > If text logins don’t work, how would you expect GUI logins to work? I have seen it happen once. Nobody could login in text mode because one of the tools doing it was broken in an update, while the graphical login used different tools. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;