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. I am logged in as a regular user.... I "su -" and run gedit. I got no errors and I can edit the preference just fine.... I think you are making the mistake of doing only "su" and not "su -". > > 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? > > Sigh. > > -- If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. -- Anatole France Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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