On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 14:57 +0000, Croombe F. Pensom wrote: > I have installed FC10 five times now but I can NEVER log in as root as > it ALWAYS tells me that the authentication failed. > I did the install very, very carefully as I thought that, maybe, I had > goofed; but, no, I set up root password OK but still cannot do the login > as root. > The only way I can get to root operations is via sudo but, then, I can't > get a gui running (I'm a bit lazy!!). > Any ideas as to why I can't log in as root? > CroombeFP > -- > This e-mail produced entirely under Linux. Absolutely NO M$ products have been used. > Open a terminal edit the file /etc/pam.d/gdm Comment out the fourth line so it reads: #auth required pam_suceed_if.so user != root quiet -- ======================================================================= QOTD: "You want me to put *holes* in my ears and hang things from them? How... tribal." ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
