From: Tony Molloy <tony.molloy(a)ul.ie>
Subject: Re: F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora."
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Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6:49 PM
On Thursday 04 December 2008 17:33:22 Robert Moskowitz
wrote:
> Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +0000, John
Horne wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce
wrote:
> >>> appparently f10, has modified the default
behavior to restrict you
> >>> from logging in as the "root"
user.
> >
> > Check the archives. I seem to recall a pam
change that does
> > limit the login devices for 'root'. It
can be undone but
> > the goal was to limit external and unwanted local
root activity.
>
> I can't find this pearl of wisdom, and right now,
as I plow through
> getting things working, I really benifit from logging
in as root. Yes I
> can set inittab to init 3, then run startx, but I am
not sure this is
> the same thing (and when I exit startx I see an error
about running this
> as root).
Edit /etc/pam.d/gdm
find the line
auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
and replace it with
auth required pam_succeed_if.so
Then logout and login as root.
Tony
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