can't login as root at the graphical login prompt

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Sun Jan 29 11:11:51 UTC 2006


Craig White wrote:
 
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 23:05 -0800, Mohammed El-Afifi wrote:

> >         I've installed the fedora core 4, recently. I can login as a
> >         normal user but when I try to login as root at the graphical
> >         login prompt, I receive the error message "Root login is not
> >         allowed.". May I be missing some package(s) or some
> >         configuration?

> I think if you use KDM, root is not allowed. 

That's the modern default, but there's no reason you need to leave it
that way. The AllowRootLogin line in kdmrc is what controls it.
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