12-01-2019, 05:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2019, 06:00 PM by Jeremiah Cornelius.)
(10-16-2019, 10:37 AM)u974615 Wrote: I have not tested, but maybe you would like to try.
-- edit /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf [security] section to
[security]
AllowRoot=true
--edit /etc/pam.d/gdm-password comment out this line
#auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet_success
This is definitely correct. I have it on 2 Ubuntu/Pop_OS boxes and a Debian Buster.
It's inadvisable. My root accounts are protected with encFS home directories, and the Gnome desktops have flaming RED decorations, theme highlights and terminal profiles, to remind of their potential for accident and abuse. Good root password maintenance is also practiced.
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"Be the first person not to do something, that no one has thought of not doing before’’
— Brian Eno, "Oblique Strategies"