root login

[bruce]

great...

not sure why some kept telling you to deal with the init file... 

moral of story: be careful when taking advice of people you don't know!!!



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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Nick
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:44 PM
To: 'Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.'
Subject: RE: root login


Hi All 

Many thanks got it fixed now by editing the gdm file


Nick



-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of g
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 21:14
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Subject: Re: root login

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Nick wrote:
> Tried that when I go to save it   I get a error message that I don’t have
> the permissions necessary to save the file.
> 
> If I do a whoami I am root
> 
> Where do I go from here

then there may be some other problems.

at boot screen, press <tab> and 'e' to edit. cursor down to line starting
with 'kernel' press <e> to edit, add to end of line '1'. press <enter>,
then <b> to boot.

you will start in level 1 maintenance mode.

'cd /etc', 'cp inittab inittab.bak', 'vi inittab', cursor down to line with
'id:5:initdefault:'. cursor to '5' press <r>, press '3', enter in sequence,
':qw'. then enter 'reboot'.

this should bring you up in 'command line' mode. enter 'root' at login prompt,
enter root password.

if refused, you may be using wrong password. changing password is another
'level 1' operation, which can be gone thru it above does not work.


peace out.

tc,hago.

g


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