Why can't we log into GUI as root any more?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Sep 11 21:12:24 UTC 2007
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
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