F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login

[Robert Moskowitz]

Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +0000, John Horne wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
>>     
>>> appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you
>>> from logging in as the "root" user. 
>>>
>>>       
> Check the archives.  I seem to recall a pam change that does
> limit the login devices for 'root'.  It can be undone but
> the goal was to limit external and unwanted local root activity.
>   

I can't find this pearl of wisdom, and right now, as I plow through 
getting things working, I really benifit from logging in as root. Yes I 
can set inittab to init 3, then run startx, but I am not sure this is 
the same thing (and when I exit startx I see an error about running this 
as root).