Root login in rawhide and display managers

Florian La Roche laroche at redhat.com
Sat Sep 22 11:09:57 UTC 2007


> See fedora-desktop list discussions. The goal IIUC was to discourage 
> root login via display managers since there isn't normally a reason to 
> do that and it presents a higher security risk. This has also been a 


Hello Rahul,

default should be to allow root login for convenience and keep
it up to sysadmins to lock down a machine completely if this is
desired as local security policy.

regards,

Florian La Roche




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