Mike Dwiggins wrote: > I installed Fedora 11 on a dual-boot machine. When I booted up on > the Fedora partition I went straight to /etc/pam.d/gdm and deleted > the line which keeps out root as a login. > > I still cannot login as root! Did this version hide a block on root > somewhere else? Yes. You also need to edit /etc/pam.d/gdm-password (and _possibly_ /etc/pam.d/gdm-fingerprint if you use a fingerprint reader). https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_Root_User_For_GNOME_Display_Manager Not to pick on you in particular Mike, but I really think that folks who feel they need to login as root ought to be better at knowing how to diagnose and fix such problems. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
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