F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Dec 4 18:05:59 UTC 2008
Fred Silsbee wrote:
>
> --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>
>> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>> Subject: F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login
>> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 5:33 PM
>> Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +0000, John Horne
>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> appparently f10, has modified the default
>>>>>
>> behavior to restrict you
>>
>>>>> from logging in as the "root" user.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> Check the archives. I seem to recall a pam change
>>>
>> that does
>>
>>> limit the login devices for 'root'. It can be
>>>
>> undone but
>>
>>> the goal was to limit external and unwanted local root
>>>
>> activity.
>>
>>>
>>>
>> I can't find this pearl of wisdom, and right now, as I
>> plow through getting things working, I really benifit from
>> logging in as root. Yes I can set inittab to init 3, then
>> run startx, but I am not sure this is the same thing (and
>> when I exit startx I see an error about running this as
>> root).
>>
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> Has Fedora become puppy Linux?
When you are attempting to debug why drivers and such are not working,
being root saves time which is saving money. Once things work, then I go
back to 'normal'.
Yes, I often open a terminal window and su, and then 'nautilus &', but
that has given me wierd behaviour. And then I want to sftp some root
files over, gFTP is nice. Most things can be done without being root,
and take a few hours more. I am not an expert at this stuff. My job is
to work on security protocols, not OSs.
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