On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:49:08 -0700 bruce wrote: > and 2, are you guys saying that gnome in fedora 11/12 doesn't allow a > user to log in as the root user? The GDM program doesn't allow you to login as root (though you can edit some obscure files to change that). A gnome session is willing to run as root if you can get past the login hurdles :-).