0005965: PAM/GDM does not allow root to login after last update

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005965	Kali Linux	General Bug	public	2019-12-31 01:26	2020-01-13 17:56

Reporter	radualexandrupopescu	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	kali-dev
Fixed in Version	2020.1

Summary	0005965: PAM/GDM does not allow root to login after last update
Description	For some reason, after the last update (2019-12-31T02:30:00+0200) GDM refuses to allow me to login. /var/log/auth.log contains lines like: Dec 31 03:02:16 kali gdm-password]: pam_succeed_if(gdm-password:auth): requirement "user != root" not met by user "root"
Steps To Reproduce	Update to current version of packages Try to log in
Additional Information	Commenting out lines like auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet_success from /etc/pam.d/gdm-* seems to fix the issue. Should mention this is an old VM I keep updating/upgrading: Kali-Linux-2016.2-vm-amd64

rhertzog 2020-01-03 19:55 administrator ~0011799	That's because you removed "kali-root-login", we dropped the dependency in preparation of the switch to a default non-root user but I did not anticipate that it would be removed by "apt autoremove". I have added a "Suggests: kali-root-login" to (hopefully) keep the package installed for users that already have it. You have to "apt install kali-root-login" to fix that. Or maybe you should add normal user and make it a member of the sudo group and keep using that instead. See https://www.kali.org/news/kali-default-non-root-user/

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-12-31 01:26	radualexandrupopescu	New Issue
2020-01-03 19:55	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2020-01-03 19:55	rhertzog	Status	new => resolved
2020-01-03 19:55	rhertzog	Resolution	open => fixed
2020-01-03 19:55	rhertzog	Fixed in Version	=> 2020.1
2020-01-03 19:55	rhertzog	Note Added: 0011799