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It seems we are unable to login as the 'root' user on RHEL6.0 alpaha 1.  Is this by design or is it a bug?  Is their a different way to login as root vs whereas we use to login as 'root' as the system was booting up?

Some of our test require us to be logged in as a root user in order for them to run.

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Steve, 

If you're speaking of the graphical desktop I believe this is by design. 

Please note however that RHEL6 bugs should be filed in Issue Tracker as usual, and not directly in bugzilla. 

-David

Hi Steve,

Root login is disabled by default because many parts of a typical desktop session don't work well when run as root.

If you have specific programs that need to be run as root, I suggest using the "sudo" program from within an otherwise unprivileged session.

Otherwise, you can reenable root login by editing this config file:

/etc/pam.d/gdm-password

Just remove the line that says

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

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