--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy@xxxxx> wrote: > From: Tony Molloy <tony.molloy@xxxxx> > Subject: Re: F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 6:49 PM > 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 thanks! useful if I ever move to F10 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
