F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login

[Robert Moskowitz]

Fred Silsbee wrote:
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> --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +0000, John Horne
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>> wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
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>>>>> appparently f10, has modified the default
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>> behavior to restrict you
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>>>>> from logging in as the "root" user. 
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>>>>>           
>>> Check the archives.  I seem to recall a pam change
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>> that does
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>>> limit the login devices for 'root'.  It can be
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>> undone but
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>>> the goal was to limit external and unwanted local root
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>> activity.
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>> 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.