Root Privelages

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at hi.is
Wed Nov 19 14:20:09 UTC 2008


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

JBG
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