root in FC 10

[Robert Moskowitz]

bruce wrote:
> hey robert.
>   

Bruce, avoid top posting...

> do a search, look for pam/gdm/root/user... there's a config file that can be
> modified to allow for initial root login initially at the start..
>   

Already done that. Just chirping in again about why someone relatively 
sane would want to log in as root...

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert Moskowitz
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 4:35 AM
> To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.
> Subject: Re: root in FC 10
>
>
> Dave Cross wrote:
>   
>> 2008/12/5 Mike Dwiggins <mike at azdwiggins.com>:
>>
>>     
>>> I upgraded a throw away test system from FC 8 to FC 10.  When it
>>>       
> finished, I
>   
>>> tried logging in as root user and could not.
>>>
>>> Logging in as a normal user I went to a text session and the su command
>>> worked with the old root password.
>>>
>>> Did I do something wrong or is this something new to 10?
>>>
>>>       
>> Disabling root login is a common security practice. Sounds like it's
>> been disabled by default in F10. That's got to be a good thing.
>>
>> As someone else has said, you can enable it again by fiddling with the
>> pam files, but please consider whether you really want to do that. Why
>> not log as a normal user and then use su (or, better, sudo) on the
>> rare occasions when you need root access?
>>     
>
> On my 'work' notebook and most of my servers, I log in as me and 'su'
> when I need to do something 'rooty'.
>
> But on this system where I am trying to get F10 working? Yah, believe it
> that I want to be root; it gets too frustrating too fast otherwise.
>
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