Fedora Headache
 

When GRUB is tabbed and 'a' brings up "rhgb quiet" and you then modify that line, that seems to be a 'one-time' temporary modify, right? It seems temporary. If I add a 3 it boots to a non-GUI terminal mode and allows me to log in as root. But as root I could not figure out how to mount a usb drive. I could see the usb drive in /dev but mount said it didn't exist. Also I could not add a GUI user because I could not find crypt to generate a password. Also I could not log into the GUI as root or as a password-less user -- so I had to reinstall just to create a non-priviledged user. Now it tells me that user is not in the sudo file! So now I have to go figure out how to modify this sudo file...

comment out the line this line
auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

in /etc/pam.d/kdm -- for kde desktop
in /etc/pam.d/gdm ---- for gnome
in /etc/pam.d/lxdm --- for lxde

to enable root login via gui

cheers

I discovered the easiest solution (for Fedora) is to create the first user and check the little box to make that user an admin. The first time I was following someone's misguided instructions which did not work too well. Thanks.

Davejjj,

Is this thread solved? if so, please mark it as such. If not, you can use this guide:http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...-f15.html#sudo to add yourself to /etc/sudoers

do not use that pam hack

you almost NEVER need to login as root into the gui

also there are a whole host of "unintended consequences"
like not being able to update the system.


running gnome as root is a VERY BAD IDEA
it opens you up to having rootkits auto installed

we do not care one bit about YOUR computer
BUT if it becomes a "zombie" and starts attacking us
THEN WE DO CARE !!!



back in fedora 11 the root gui login was DISABLED
not only in fedora , but Gnome ALSO disabled it
so two groups disabled the root gui login

That ought to tell you something .

To add a user to sudo, use 'visudo' as root user.
http://linux.die.net/man/8/visudo
http://linux.die.net/man/5/sudoers

For a passwd, either eg
or
both as root

thanks john for pointing that out

regards

Ok, well I don't really know what the "admin" checkbox does. Is it the same as adding the username to the sudoers file or does the admin group have root privileges?

I imagine it adds the user to the sudoers file at best. John pointed out all of the resons why, and as far as I know you can never log into the GUI as root. I would think that this extends to not granting default root privileges to GUI users.

Yes, I didn't think of using passwd at the time because something said to use "crypt."