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01-31-2010, 11:00 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2010
Location: canada eh
Distribution: fedora 12,
Posts: 1
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log in as Root in gui
how can i log into gui as root? I'm using distro fedora 12.
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01-31-2010, 11:04 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Gurgaon, India
Distribution: Cent OS 6/7
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Root login in GUI is blocked by default for your security reasons. I think you should reconsider your thoughts on logging in as root. You will make your system vulnerable.
But if you still want, you can edit gdm configuration. There is a graphical utility as well I guess where you can enable root logins.
But seriously you should reconsider this.
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01-31-2010, 11:26 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2009
Location: under the bridge
Distribution: linuxmint xfce
Posts: 20
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If you sure know what you want to do, you can edit user profile then unlock root group and rights , also edit GDM login to enable root access. Hope this will help
Regards
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01-31-2010, 11:48 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Apr 2002
Location: earth
Distribution: slackware by choice, others too :} ... android.
Posts: 23,067
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Hi, welcome to LQ!
Quote:
Originally Posted by xtriggerx
how can i log into gui as root? I'm using distro fedora 12.
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You really really DON'T want to do that. There are no
valid reasons/needs for it, and many good reasons against
it. What makes you want to do such a silly thing?
Cheers,
Tink |
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1 members found this post helpful.
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02-01-2010, 05:31 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
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If you want to run a GUI app. as root, for instance a text editor, use kdesu (for KDE, obviously) or gksu (for Gnome):
Code:
kdesu kwrite [then the path to whatever file]
or
Code:
gksu gedit [then the path to whatever file]
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