FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

[Tony Molloy]

On Friday 30 October 2009 10:31:49 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> At times I find I need to login as root.
>
> For example, as a regular user su to root, then start gedit from that
> terminal session.  Look at all the errors generated.  And at least in
> FC10, I could still change preferences, but in FC11, they all come up
> grey.  There are other things in gnome that don't launch right from an
> SUed terminal session.  So when I want to 'fix' things, I find it better
> to just log in as root.
>
> So in FC10, I learned to edit (with VI cause at least THAT works in the
> SU terminal session) /etc/pam.d/gdm and trim off the end of the 2nd line
> that has pam_succeed_if.so
>
> Well I did that, and logged out as me and could not log in as root.  So
> I rebooted (perhaps needed to restart some service) and still could not
> log in as root.
>
> So what is the magic incantation this time around?  And why is it
> getting harder to enable this?
 To make things more user-friendly ;-)
>

> Sigh.

Do the same edit on /etc/pam.d/gdm-password

Tony

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Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick.