On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:59 AM, R. G. Newbury newbury@mandamus.org wrote: <snip>
. I don't know whether there is a way to make the root account appear at the GDM login.
Comment out the 4th line of /etc/pam.d/gdm so it reads: #auth required pam_suceed_if.so user != root quiet
And log-out. 'Root' is now an acceptable user during the graphical login as an 'Other'. (And /root/.dmrc will continue to exist if you use it/create it.)
Geoff
Note that GDM is installed when you choose to install the GNOME desktop. The file /etc/pam.d/gdm does not exist if the GNOME desktop is not installed. I've never tried to install the gdm rpm on its own, so I don't know whether that could make a difference
BTW - The original question is about making a permanent desktop selection for root.
~af