newbie help with setting up fedora 11 to use fog

[Tony Molloy]

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 14:45:55 Melissa Bougor wrote:
> Thanks for your help fog is a cloning program that makes images of
> different machines. I will get you the instructions I have and send them.
> here is the website for fog. www.fogproject.org I have tryed the su - and
> it gets me to root but when I download the fog program it doesn't download
> it just does nothing but if I download to my download folder it works but
> that is not what the instructions say to do. So I assume it is not
> downloading to the right place. I watched a video on one of the websites
> about fedora and it says to hit ctl, alt f2 and that will also get you into
> root I tried that also. So I am not sure what I am doing wrong.
>

By default you can't login to root using the GUI on Fedora-11. Here's what to 
do to "fix" that.

1.  Log is an an ordinary user

2.   su -   
      switch user to root with root's environment

3.  edit /etc/pam.d/gdm

     repalce the following line near the top

     auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

     with

     auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so

4.  edit /etc/pam.d/gdm-password

    repalce the following line near the top

    auth        required      pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

   with

    auth        required      pam_succeed_if.so

Now log out and you should be able to log back in as root.

Tony


>
 >>> Ed Landaveri <landaveri at inbox.com> 10/19/2009 6:25 PM >>>
>
> Mellisa,
> as advised do 'su -' and follow the instructions on installing fog BTW what
> is 'fog'? If you have doubts about not being root type in 'whoami'
> (remember NOT to type in the quotes) Let me know what is fog and if have
> the instructions send it to me. It is an rpm installation or you do unpack
> a *.tar.bz or gz file on /opt and proceed with the install scripts.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gene.heskett at verizon.net
> > Sent: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:15:41 -0400
> > To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: newbie help with setting up fedora 11 to use fog
> >
> > On Monday 19 October 2009, Melissa Bougor wrote:
> > >I have installed fedora 11 on a 1 tbyte hard drive we bought to use as a
> >>
> >> server to run fog. The directions in fog tell me to logon as root and
> >> then
> >> install  fog version 0.28 in the /opt folder. I tried to login in as
> >> root
> >> using the terminal but fog still would not install into the /opt folder.
> >> I
> >> have tried to follow all the directions given but with no success in it
> >> working. I don't think I have logged onto root right. I am new at  linux
> >> so I need someone to walk me through. This would benefit our school
> >> district if I can get it to work.
> >>
> > >Thanks
> > >Melissa
> >
> > Melissa:  one of the more common newbie related mistakes made is when
> > doing
> > the su to get root privs, the - is left out, so you are still working in
> > the
> > users environment, albeit with root privs.
> >
> > The correct syntax is: su -
> > and answer the passwd prompt.  You will then have roots environment,
> > including the portions of the $PATH variable that give access to root
> > tools.
> >
> > I'm not saying that is your problem, but it is a common problem.
> >
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