Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:29 +0100, sschroeder wrote:
> Is there any way to gain root access in GNOME to do things that require root
authenication (moving files for example to the /usr/ folder, without:
> su - sudo su -
>
> Doing that gets annoying, since I have to do that, go to something that prompts for
the root password, type the root password AGAIN, and to boot, I can't choose when I
want the authentication to expire, it just goes away, making copying a large number of
files very difficult. In Fedora 9 you could log on as root (which I understand why they
took it away, but you could choose to keep root authentication), is there a way to
anymore?
>
Is there some problem in simply running 'su' and getting a root shell?
poc
Remove "user != root quiet" in /etc/pam.d/gdm
And you have a root login from GDM
JBG