On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I ran into a problem today for which I already found the answer, but I wanted > to ask what in the world is going on with F10 and gnome's initial install?? > > Today I decided to install F10 for the first time and decided to try out the > Gnome desktop. The install was clean. Somewhere during the install I was > asked for the root password. I did noticed I was not given a chance to > create a regular user account. > The system booted and I enter the username (root) and its password. So now > I now that for security reasons root is not allowed to login using the GDM. The > fix is to edit /etc/pam.d/gdm to comment out the line with "user != root" in it. > > But now, seriously, how I'm I supposed to log in at the desktop when I was not > offered the chance to create a regular user account during the installation? > > This has to be the most discouraging thing for someone who wants to try out > fedora for the first time. How in the world is a newbie going to > figure this things out? > > I skimmed through the release notes and didn't see anything related to this. > ~af > Here's a link in case someone needs it. That's to bypass the GUI login temporarily; see the "Doing the Work" section. http://fedorasolved.org/Members/rasker/temporarily-running-gnome-as-root-user-in-f10/?searchterm=None ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
