Why can't we log into GUI as root any more?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Arch Willingham <arch <at> tuparks.com> writes:
>> I realize its not good to do on a live system, but why can't we log into the
>> GUI of FC8 as root anymore?
> 
> It's funny because the default in KDM changed the other way in F7 
> (AllowRootLogin=false was dropped).

See fedora-desktop list for the discussions where it was said it was 
changed to match GDM. Both can now disabled and be consistent.

> I think it makes no sense not to allow it. It doesn't give you any security 
> (because it's trivial to log in as root in text mode, edit the config file and 
> then go back to graphical), just annoyance if you do need a graphical root 
> session for whatever reason.

There is no reason to do so really.

Rahul