FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

[Ed Greshko]

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.
I am logged in as a regular user....  I "su -" and run gedit.  I got no
errors and I can edit the preference just fine....

I think you are making the mistake of doing only "su" and not "su -".


>
> 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?
>
> Sigh.
>
>


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