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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
