can't run gnome as root - addition - SOLVED

[Tom H]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> As far as I'm aware, ssh does (by default) not allow root to login anyway,
>>
>> "PermitRootLogin yes" is set by default on Debian and Ubuntu.
>
> And on CentOS & Fedora...

I only mentioned Debian to imply that Ubuntu was inheriting this from Debian.

You're right; and on Arch, Funtoo, and Gentoo. It makes me think that
it must be an upstream default.