On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org wrote:
IIRC, gdm just doesn't *let* you log in as root at all. Are you sure this person was running GNOME? You *can* get to KDE with only a root user, I believe.
This got reverted some time ago.
Now, half the desktop will be royally broken if you log in as root, and there's no way we'd ever claim to support that. But it's unfortunately possible again.
Michael