[Fedora-electronic-lab-list] how to login as root at runlevel 5

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K Sandesh Kamath wrote:

> I am trying to login as root at runlevel 5 and it throws an error "Unable to
> authenticate user".

this is because you should not log in as root

> Please do tell whether I am following the right method to login as root.

login as normal user, open a terminal, cd to /etc/pam.d, su to root.

edit /etc/pam.d/gdm, find the line;

  auth  required  pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

replace it with;

  auth  required   pam_succeed_if.so

logout as root close terminal, logout of x as user and login as root.


please do not post in html. thank you.

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