LightDM - Sep 2016 - Login as root with LightDM in Gentoo/Gnome

Good day!

I have several of my machines working with LightDM and the latest Gentoo and
Gnome versions.
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.
I do use the root GUI quite often to manage a lot of things for all the users.

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.

So my question is, is there a way so that LightDM detects the root user to be
able to login with it?
It would be of great help for my work.

Thanks in advance!
 		 	   		  
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Hi,

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.

--Robert

On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 at 01:01 §ɧαδøω ३३३ <shadow_one666 at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Good day!
>
> I have several of my machines working with LightDM and the latest Gentoo
> and Gnome versions.
> 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.
> I do use the root GUI quite often to manage a lot of things for all the
> users.
>
> 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.
>
> So my question is, is there a way so that LightDM detects the root user to
> be able to login with it?
> It would be of great help for my work.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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