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 Message 135,044 of 135,166 
 Carlos E.R. to Marc Haber 
 =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=E2=80=9CWhat_a_Linux_ro 
 22 Jan 26 13:06:08 
 
From: robin_listas@es.invalid

On 2026-01-22 10:42, Marc Haber wrote:
> "Carlos E.R."  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I find it interesting which exotic use cases people cough up to
> justify their own every-day insecure usage.

Where do you get that I, or we, login every day as root?

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