From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com>
Subject: 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, 5:33 PM
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).
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