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   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?   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
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