Bug 846758

Summary:	Unable to logon as root
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	andy norrie <gm1mqe>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	13.1 Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	64bit
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description andy norrie 2013-10-19 13:56:15 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0

Unable to logon as root - I can not enter root as the user - I only am able to logon as "andy"

12.x allowed me to logon as root.

Is this a policy change to stop loging on as root???

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install
2. Try logon as root and you cant.
3.

Comment 1 andy norrie 2013-10-29 06:43:29 UTC

Bypass.

Boot system
Change session type to "Terminal"
input "root" as name
input "********" as password

Now logoned as root

startx

Root now running under KDE.

Is this KDE????

Comment 2 andy norrie 2013-11-23 18:27:06 UTC

Problem is fixed in formal release.