Re: F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login

[Robert Moskowitz]

Tony Molloy wrote:
>  On Thursday 04 December 2008 17:33:22 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>    
> > Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> >     
> >> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +0000, John Horne wrote:
> >>       
> >>> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
> >>>         
> >>>> appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you
> >>>> from logging in as the "root" user.
> >>>>           
> >> Check the archives.  I seem to recall a pam change that does
> >> limit the login devices for 'root'.  It can be undone but
> >> the goal was to limit external and unwanted local root activity.
> >>       
> > I can't find this pearl of wisdom, and right now, as I plow through
> > getting things working, I really benifit from logging in as root. Yes I
> > can set inittab to init 3, then run startx, but I am not sure this is
> > the same thing (and when I exit startx I see an error about running this
> > as root).
> >     
>
>  Edit /etc/pam.d/gdm
>
>  find the line
>
>  auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
>
>  and replace it with 
>
>  auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so
>
>  Then logout and login as root. 
thanks!

I have GOT to start my F10 tips 'book'....