F10 and no root login - impossible to maintain systems!

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Jan 21 09:39:09 UTC 2009


Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> I think the push for never allowing root to login is daft and
> inconsiderate of the needs of users who maintain systems.  I much prefer
> the F9 policy of putting up a warning and allowing me to proceed -- I know
> it's impossible to make everything on the desktop root-safe and I don't
> expect it.  The system should not decree that it knows better than me,
> though. 

Remove the offending line from your /etc/pam.d/gdm file.

And yes, I also think that default setting sucks (and FWIW, KDM currently
isn't set up that way).

        Kevin Kofler




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