after installing a fresh Tumbleweed copy logging in with user root worked everywhere. After some time now I cannot login with user root at the graphical login (TTY7) anymore. A text login (TTY1) is still possible - therefore I’m sure the password is correct.
Probably SDDM blocks login with root now? Where can I allow this again? I changed some settings with SDDM in the System Control Center and pressed “apply” (because I’ve got problems with the font used by SDDM theme breeze-opensuse after installing additional fonts).
You should NOT login as root and certainly not in the GUI.
While you may find this rule ridiculous and thus violate it (after all it is your system), you can not expect from others to have any experience with it. Nor can you expect from others that they are going to help you by trying to re-create the problem on their own system.Please in the future use CODE tags around copied/pasted computer text in a post. It is the # button in the tool bar of the post editor. When applicable copy/paste complete, that is including the prompt, the command, the output and the next prompt.
Yes, that’s the official line which I actually know of.
While you may find this rule ridiculous and thus violate it (after all it is your system), you can not expect from others to have any experience with it. Nor can you expect from others that they are going to help you by trying to re-create the problem on their own system.
With this I disagree. A freshly installed system allows me to login as root - therefore it might be discouraged but not “forbidden” as there would be mechanisms to disable root login completely. My aim was purely to restore the state of a freshly installed system, nothing more.
Fortunately I managed to achieve this by restoring the /etc/sddm.conf to it’s original state.
Please in the future use CODE tags around copied/pasted computer text in a post. It is the # button in the tool bar of the post editor. When applicable copy/paste complete, that is including the prompt, the command, the output and the next prompt.
To which portion of my post do you refer here?
Fortunately I could solve my initial problem too - I describe it in a separate post here.
There is nothing “official” about this. Which office do you think you or we are a subject of? It is just a sound good practise since 30-40 years
What I say is that other people will not follow you here and login as root just to see if they can re-create your problem. You may disagree with it, but IMHO it is a fact of life.
What the system allows you to do should not lead to the conclusion that it is a wise thing to do.
But as I tried to explain earlier, we are not interested in you doing to your system what you want. We will not follow you and for the sake of of preventing new Linux users to read this and thinking it is good advice to log in as root, we have to warn against the bad practise.
Sorry, for some reason this information was apparently “under the middle mouse button” and copied by hitting that button by incident. I often send that info (mostly by PM) to new users, because it is not easy to find this feature.
Fine you have solved your problem. Enjoy openSUSE in 2017.
I don’t know if SDDM blocks it. But if it is still working with non-root users it must be an issue with the root user. Said that, I had troubles to login with a non-root user as I had put a buggy .xinitrc file in the users home directory. So maybe the login “works” but then something “crashes” SDDM?