Tony Molloy wrote:
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.
thanks!
I have GOT to start my F10 tips 'book'....
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