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rewards 04-25-2011 02:48 AM
Fedora 12 root login
 
Hello all,

I installed Fedora 12 on my computer laptop. Every time I boot the system, it does allow me to log in as a root user. It just allows me to log in the non administrator user I created during the setup. I want to be able to log in as root. Does anyone know how to enable root login on fedora?

repo 04-25-2011 02:55 AM
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It just allows me to log in the non administrator user I created during the setup.
And that is how it should be.
If you want to perform system tasks, just use su.
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Does anyone know how to enable root login on fedora?
You don't, but if you really want to, it depends on your window manager.

Kind regards

John VV 04-25-2011 03:30 AM
there is a hack BUT IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED!!!
and if you use it some things in Gnome WILL NOT WORK RIGHT !!
loged in as root in gnome you CAN NOT install software "yum" will not authenticate
the network manager will not authenticate , and so on .There are a bunch of things that WILL NOT WORK RIGHT.

Also fedora 12 is DEAD and unsupported there will NEVER be any updates to it

please STAY CURRENT and install fedora 14 .

Fred Caro 04-25-2011 08:24 AM
root
 
You can login as root but it lands you in the root directory/partition and so any saved data will be there, unless you put it elsewhere, so better to visit rather than occupy.Going to the root directory is fine if you want to edit system files but having that constantly open is inviting risk.

Fred.

rewards 04-25-2011 11:06 AM
Hello again,

I know all the risks associated with root danger login. This is a practice setup at home and if anything happens, I can always re-install the fedora again. I used to have Linux Centos flavor installed on the system and it gave the options to login as any user including root. Is there anything can be done on fedora to have the option enabling root user login directly? Thank you

snowday 04-25-2011 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by rewards (Post 4335708)
Hello again,

I know all the risks associated with root danger login. This is a practice setup at home and if anything happens, I can always re-install the fedora again. I used to have Linux Centos flavor installed on the system and it gave the options to login as any user including root. Is there anything can be done on fedora to have the option enabling root user login directly? Thank you
If it is a "practice setup" then practice doing it the correct way, use "su" rather than GUI root login.

DavidMcCann 04-25-2011 11:22 AM
If you want to log-in as root, edit
/etc/pam.d/gdm
/etc/pam.d/gdm-password
In each file, comment out one line thus:
# auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root

And don't blame me if you suffer consequences! :tisk:

John VV 04-25-2011 04:44 PM
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I know all the risks associated with root danger login. This is a practice setup at home and if anything happens, I can always re-install the fedora again
it is NOT that
things WILL NOT WORK RIGHT IF YOU DO
Gnome ( ran a root ) will NOT WORK RIGHT
things WILL NOT WORK!
Gnome WILL be broken !

gnome run as root in 12 WILL NOT be able to get root authentication , the pop up window will NOT POP UP !

also there were some VERY bad root login bugs in 12

PLEASE use the current AND SUPPORTED VERSION Fedora 14


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