Root with GUI

[bruce]

hi tom...

right.. it used to be the pam files as i recall to allow root to login
from the login screen... i'm assuming these are the obscure files
you're referring to ...

or did the fedora team make other changes in f11/12/13 that i'm not aware of??

thanks


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :-).
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