Robert Moskowitz wrote:
At times I find I need to login as root.
For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that
terminal session. Look at all the errors generated. And at least in
FC10, I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they all come up
grey. There are other things in gnome that don't launch right from an
SUed terminal session. So when I want to 'fix' things, I find it
better to just log in as root.
I am logged in as a regular user.... I "su
-" and run gedit. I got no
errors and I can edit the preference just fine....
I think you are making the mistake of doing only "su" and not "su -".
So in FC10, I learned to edit (with VI cause at least THAT works in
the SU terminal session) /etc/pam.d/gdm and trim off the end of the
2nd line that has pam_succeed_if.so
Well I did that, and logged out as me and could not log in as root.
So I rebooted (perhaps needed to restart some service) and still could
not log in as root.
So what is the magic incantation this time around? And why is it
getting harder to enable this?
Sigh.
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