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

[Robert Moskowitz]

Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Thursday 04 December 2008 17:33:22 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>   
>> 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).
>>     
>
> Edit /etc/pam.d/gdm
>
> find the line
>
> auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
>
> and replace it with 
>
> auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so
>
> Then logout and login as root.

thanks!

I have GOT to start my F10 tips 'book'....