Today's (9/12) rawhide all users = unable to authenticate user!

[Matthew Woehlke]

darrell pfeifer wrote:
> 2008/9/12 Dr. Diesel <dr.diesel at gmail.com>
> 
>> Booting normally to GDM, using normal root login gives me unable to
>> authenticate user.  If I boot to init3, my user/pass works just fine, then I
>> can startx.  I attempted passwd and reset my pass with no luck!
>>
>> Anybody else?  Should I file this under GDM?
>>
> 
> The gdm changelog says
> 
> * Tue Sep 09 2008 Jon McCann <jmccann at redhat.com> - 1:2.23.92-2
> - Disallow root login
> 
>  So it is intentional

So... what exactly are we supposed to do when the user login gets hosed? 
Reach for a rescue disk? (Seriously, what's with the sudden trend to 
make fixing problems harder by making recovery modes inaccessible in an 
apparent bid to hide the "confusing/potentially dangerous" bits of the 
system from the user?)

-- 
Matthew
ENOWIT: .sig file for this machine not set up yet