On 28 March 2010 20:26, agraham <agraham@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28/03/10 09:29, Rajanish Kumar wrote: >> Hi! >> I have already installed Fedora 12 .I have given root password...and >> finally added a user name "rajanish" >> .I am log in through "rajanish"but i have not accessing throgh root...I want >> to log in through root because i want to learn administrative property. >> please help me to guide log in through root.. > At the login prompt (or your graphical login program - gdm, kdm etc) > use the username "root" and password that you set when installing Fedora. Nice idea, but it won't work unless you enable it: http://linuxers.org/quick-tips/fedora-12-enable-root-login-gui > Please ignore all those that present horror stories and FUD about root, > you have to learn somehow and the best way is to mess around as root. I disagree and I am a professional Linux sysadmin. I never login as root. > Unlike a normal user, your path with will include /sbin so you won't > need to prepend root commands with a path e.g. /sbin/ifconfig. You can add /sbin and /usr/sbin to your normal path if this is a problem for you. I do this and then I login as a normal user and use "sudo" or "su -c" to prefix any commands I want to run as root. > And if you happen to do something like "rm -rf /", just re-install and > start-over, I'm sure you'll learn from your mistakes like we all did. No comment ;o) -- Sam -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
