[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

[Oliver Burger]

Am 13.04.2012 15:22, schrieb TJ:
> On 04/13/2012 06:26 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
>> On 04/12/2012 11:36 PM, R James wrote:
>>> What I"m about to tell you may destroy all of Linux or it may provide
>>> just
>>> the convenience you need:
>>>
>>> # sed -i 's/user != root//' /etc/pam.d/kdm
>>>
>>> # sed -i 's/AllowRootLogin=false/AllowRootLogin=true/'\
>>> /var/lib/mageia/kde4-profiles/Default/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
>>>
>>> # service dm restart
>>>
>>>
>> Wasn't the contention of the OP that someone had patched KDM so that
>> keyword would be ignored no matter what you set it to ?
>>
> Exactly. And where I get annoyed in this whole conversation is not that
> I want to log in as root - I haven't even tried to do that in years. But
> the option has been there, should I feel I need it and am prepared to
> accept the consequences of my actions. This latest move has removed that
> option - according to the OP - and THAT'S what annoys me.
>
And as I did say in this thread. I don't see any action by our KDE team 
to this effect. Ok, I only scanned over the patches, but I read the 
changelog and I saw no sign of anyone patching KDM to ignore it.
So be annoyed with KDE upstream for this change, not with our KDE 
maintainers.

Of course if someone does find a patch on our side, that does it, feel 
free to correct me.

Oliver