On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:29 +0100, sschroeder wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to gain root access in GNOME to do things that require
>> root authenication (moving files for example to the /usr/ folder, without:
>> su - sudo su -
>>
>> Doing that gets annoying, since I have to do that, go to something that
>> prompts for the root password, type the root password AGAIN, and to boot,
>> I can't choose when I want the authentication to expire, it just goes
>> away, making copying a large number of files very difficult. In Fedora 9
>> you could log on as root (which I understand why they took it away, but
>> you could choose to keep root authentication), is there a way to anymore?
>>
>
> Is there some problem in simply running 'su' and getting a root shell?
>
> poc
>
>
Remove "user != root quiet" in /etc/pam.d/gdm
And you have a root login from GDM
Does this work for you? I tried that and nothing changed.. still no root
login.
JBG
Adam Pribyl