Tried that when I go to save it I get a error message that I don’t have the permissions necessary to save the file. If I do a whoami I am root Where do I go from here Thanks -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of g Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 16:10 To: fedora-list Subject: Re: root login -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nick Price wrote: > how do I enable root login i normally do not reply to 'text/html' post, but this time i am making and exception. [see guidelines link at bottom line of post] i will guess that you are booting run 'level 5', so open a terminal, su to root. change to /etc directory and edit inittab and change; 'id:5:initdefault:' to 'id:3:initdefault:' reboot and log in as root. note: reply again in 'text/html' and i will not reply. peace out. tc,hago. g **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJLWbV+C4Bj9Rkw/wRApsrAJ9l3WQEooJ1TtoSOOdWfjvpWOOuCQCfTbpG cV0s85my5MSSk6zjML/q+zU= =xvJG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
