See fedora-desktop list discussions. The goal IIUC was to discourage
root login via display managers since there isn't normally a reason to
do that and it presents a higher security risk. This has also been a
Hello Rahul,
default should be to allow root login for convenience and keep
it up to sysadmins to lock down a machine completely if this is
desired as local security policy.
regards,
Florian La Roche