Trick to Login as a root from GUI in Fedora 10

[Tejas Barot]

Hi Friends,

In Fedora 10 You cannot login from gui as a root.By Default only users
are allowed to login from gui mode.

If You want to login as a root from gui in fedora 10 then you have to
edit something like this

Go to pam.d directory

cd /etc/pam.d/

then first take a backup of gdm file
cp gdm gdm.bak ( always take backup if anything goes wrong you can
correct it by original file)

after taking backup

open gdm file in your favorite editor from /etc/pam.d/ folder

vim gdm

then you will find one line like this

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

remove != root (this part from line)

After Edit line will look like this

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user quiet (Remember Spaces
are also important)

After edit save file logout and try to login as a root from gui ( if
anything wrong then overwrite your original file from single user
mode )

Now you are able to login as a root from gui.

Friends if i am wrong then sorry for that if any correction in this
then please let me know.

[Nirmal Pathak]

Hi,

2008/11/27 Tejas Barot <network...@gmail.com>

Well great for quick how to for Fedora 10, but it's not good idea to login as 'root'. Seems like you are the first in VGLUG to try out F 10.

Have FuN!
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[Vijay Kakkar]

Hi,

I really appreciate you man,you had faced the problem and solved it out,
that is also a concern that  you should not login with root,but still thats good observation.
Where you read this ;) ???

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[Tejas Barot]

ya sir i know that its not good to login as root but if someone like to login as root and they are not able to login so this post will help them. thats why i post this

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Nirmal Pathak <nirmal...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Thanks & Regards,
Tejas Barot

[Tejas Barot]

i didnt found anywhere.i try to find out for 1 hour but i didnt find anything.

So i tried to solve this out on my own way and i started experiment and i got succeed.

[Sham Arsiwala]

really very good Mr. Tejas..

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SHAM ARSIWALA.
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Electromech
Baroda.

[Tejas Barot]

thanks sir

[ElectroMech]

I am not agreed.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Kartik Mistry <kartik...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Hiren Patel <patel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Either you did not understand my line or your reply is irrelevant to it.
> "How we can judge anybody as "Illiterate" or "Badly Trained" by
> knowing single step ?"

Ask him/her to login as root using GUI, if he tries, he/she is
whatever you want to say: "Illiterate" or "Badly Trained"

I believe even if you can login with root and can maintain all security then you are good admin.

Do not login with root is for dump users. Because they do not know how to handle the system.

So by accidentally some wrong thing can not be happened. ( when ever you have non root login ).

But if you are enough experience user and know how to handle security even with root login you can login with root.

I do not see any thing wrong.

"Only good and experience driver can participate and win the race, not the learner."


I believe this.
 

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