root GDM login failing on F11

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Mon Sep 14 18:48:27 UTC 2009


Aaron Gray wrote:
> I am still having problems logging in using GDM. I have removed the
> suffix " user != root quiet" from /etc/pam.d/gdm, which works on
> F10, but not on two F11 system instillations.

Please ask yourself whether you have any need to do something that
makes your system much less secure.  This comes up often and the
archives are littered with reasons why it's a poor choice.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_Root_User_For_GNOME_Display_Manager

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