I am working on a legacy system which requires me to login as a root in linux. I used to do it with my FC6.
I know sudo, su but It is very comfortable to stay as a root in GUI.
Is there any clean way to do this, If not Is there any patch ?
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Simple Answer
In Fedora 11 You cannot login from gui as a root.By Default only users are allowed to login from gui mode.
Other Way
If You want to login as a root from GUI in fedora 11 then you have to edit something like some files which are located to
/etc/pam.d/
Open your Te rminal from Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal
Now Login as a root from your terminal
Step 1 :- [[email protected]]$ su – root Password:-
Step 2:- Now go to your /etc/pam.d/ directory.
[root@ask4itsolutions]# cd /etc/pam.d/
Then first take a backup of gdm file
cp gdm gdm.bkp
( always take backup if anything goes wrong you can correct it by original file)
Step 3 :- Now Open gdm file in your favourite editor. I am using vi as my editor.
[root@ask4itsolutions pam.d]# vi gdm
Find and Comment or remove this line into your gdm file auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
Step 4 :- Save & Exit From that File. ( In Fedora10 Till step 4 is enought to Login as a root from GUI but for Fedora 11 you need one more file to edit otherwise you cannot Login as a root even though you edited gdm file).
Step 5 :- Here is the additional file that you need to edit and that file name is gdm-password. Open gdm-password file in your favourite editor. I am using vi as my editor.
Then first take a backup of gdm-password file
cp gdm-password gdm-password.bkp
( always take backup if anything goes wrong you can correct it by original file)
[[email protected] pam.d]#vi gdm-password
Find and Comment or remove this line into your gdm file auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
Step 6 :- Save & Exit from File. Now Press CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE or Logout and Try to Login as a root user. Now you are able to Login as a root user from GUI in FEDORA 11.
If you are using Fedora 11’s Fingerprint Feature to Login as a root from GUI then you need to edit one more file also
Step 7 :- Here is the additional file that you need to edit for fingerprint root login and that file name is gdm-fingerprint. Open gdm-fingerprint file in your favourite editor. I am using vi as my editor.
Then first take a backup of gdm-password file
cp gdm-fingerprint gdm-fingerprint.bkp
( always take backup if anything goes wrong you can correct it by original file)
[[email protected] pam.d]#vi gdm-fingerprint
Find and Comment or remove this line into your gdm file auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
Step 6 :- Save & Exit from File. Now Press CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE or Logout and Try to Login as a root user. Now you are able to Login as a root user from GUI in FEDORA 11
WARNING :- Its not at all good to login as root from GUI. It’ DANGEROUS. BUT if you want to know that how to login as a root from GUI then follow the steps instructions.
