Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by PaulFrields: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Desktop?action=diff&rev2=88&rev1=87 The comment on the change is: Editorial pass. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ === Graphical Root Login Disabled === - Graphical root login via GNOME Display Manager has been disabled in this release. As a standard best practice for security, it is always better to run individual programs with root privileges rather than login under root directly. With the introduction of [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePolicyKit Policy Kit] and graduation migration of administration tools to using policy kit, running a complete graphical environment as a root user is even more strongly discouraged. + This release disables login for the `root` user via the GNOME Display Manager has been disabled in this release. The best practice for security is to run individual programs with root privileges, rather than login directly as `root`. Administration tools in Fedora are gradually migrating to using [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePolicyKit PolicyKit], which makes graphical login as `root` both unnecessary and strongly discouraged. FIXME: Has KDM root login been disabled? How about other display managers? -- Fedora-relnotes-content mailing list Fedora-relnotes-content@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-relnotes-content
