On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:23:46 -0800 Nifty Fedora Mitch <niftyfedora at niftyegg.com> wrote: > Check the archives. I seem to recall a pam change that does > limit the login devices for 'root'. Yea, but the pam stuff is used only by gdm. If you run kdm, you could always login as root.