<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>LightDM doesn't explicitly disallow root login, you might want to check your PAM configuration and check the logs in /var/log/lightdm for more information.<br><br></div>--Robert<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 at 01:01 §ɧαδøω ३३३ <<a href="mailto:shadow_one666@hotmail.com">shadow_one666@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="m_-4264029434432719733hmmessage gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Good day!<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">I have several of my machines working with LightDM and the latest Gentoo and Gnome versions.<br class="gmail_msg">However, the only issue I am having right now is that I am unable to boot as root into any of them, having to switch terminal with Ctrl+Alt+FX and then using startx from there to boot into the root account.<br class="gmail_msg">I do use the root GUI quite often to manage a lot of things for all the users.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">The problem is that whenever I try to login as root with LightDM, the user and password boxes simply get grayed-out, and I have to click Cancel in order to choose another user.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">So my question is, is there a way so that LightDM detects the root user to be able to login with it?<br class="gmail_msg">It would be of great help for my work.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Thanks in advance!<br class="gmail_msg"> </div></div>
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