On Friday 30 October 2009 10:31:49 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > At times I find I need to login as root. > > For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that > terminal session. Look at all the errors generated. And at least in > FC10, I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they all come up > grey. There are other things in gnome that don't launch right from an > SUed terminal session. So when I want to 'fix' things, I find it better > to just log in as root. > > So in FC10, I learned to edit (with VI cause at least THAT works in the > SU terminal session) /etc/pam.d/gdm and trim off the end of the 2nd line > that has pam_succeed_if.so > > Well I did that, and logged out as me and could not log in as root. So > I rebooted (perhaps needed to restart some service) and still could not > log in as root. > > So what is the magic incantation this time around? And why is it > getting harder to enable this? To make things more user-friendly ;-) > > Sigh. Do the same edit on /etc/pam.d/gdm-password Tony -- Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
