<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><pre>The above change allows you to log into root, but when you try some commands, such as looking at what services are running, and try to modify what is, or is not. you are blocked </pre> --- On Thu, 11/20/08, Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz> Subject: Re: Root Privelages To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list@redhat.com> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:16 PM <pre>On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:29 +0100, sschroeder wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to gain root access in GNOME to do things that require root authenication (moving files for example to the /usr/ folder, without: >>> su - sudo su - >>> >>> Doing that gets annoying, since I have to do that, go to something that prompts for the root password, type the root password AGAIN, and to boot, I can't choose when I want the authentication to expire, it just goes away, making copying a large number of files very difficult. In Fedora 9 you could log on as root (which I understand why they took it away, but you could choose to keep root authentication), is there a way to anymore? >>> >> >> Is there some problem in simply running 'su' and getting a root shell? >> >> poc >> >> > Remove "user != root quiet" in /etc/pam.d/gdm > > And you have a root login from GDM Does this work for you? I tried that and nothing changed.. still no root login. > > JBG > </pre></blockquote></td></tr></table>