root login

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Nov 26 15:22:24 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 14:35 +0000, Nick Price wrote:
> Hi all
>  
>  
> Just downloaded F10 and when I try to login as root i get "unable to
> authenticate user"
>  
> so i logged in as myself and then "su" but each time I want to change
> system settings it keeps asking me for the root password
Did you execute su or su -
The second turns you into root with root environment.
>  
> Ive only had a few hours and its already driving me crazy with this
> continual requests for the root password.
>  
>  
> how do I enable root login
> 
> 
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