Root password disappears at every login, was "Cannot login as root"

[Timothy Murphy]

M. Fioretti wrote:


> The reasons for that are not worth discussing here, but this is why I am
> ignoring SELinux **for the moment**. Again, suggestions are welcome, but I
> will have to apply them _after_ I have finished those other things. At
> that point, I'll either fix SELinux or just reinstall from scratch...

Surely SELINUX=permissive should be the same in practice
as SELINUX=disabled?
Wouldn't it be a bug if they weren't the same?