Root Privelages

[Adam Pribyl]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 10:29 +0100, sschroeder wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there any way to gain root access in GNOME to do things that require 
>>> root authenication (moving files for example to the /usr/ folder, without:
>>> 	su - sudo su -
>>> 
>>> Doing that gets annoying, since I have to do that, go to something that 
>>> prompts for the root password, type the root password AGAIN, and to boot, 
>>> I can't choose when I want the authentication to expire, it just goes 
>>> away, making copying a large number of files very difficult.  In Fedora 9 
>>> you could log on as root (which I understand why they took it away, but 
>>> you could choose to keep root authentication), is there a way to anymore?
>>> 
>> 
>> Is there some problem in simply running 'su' and getting a root shell?
>> 
>> poc
>>
>> 
> Remove "user != root quiet" in /etc/pam.d/gdm
>
> And you have a root login from GDM

Does this work for you? I tried that and nothing changed.. still no root 
login.

>
> JBG
>

Adam Pribyl