Thursday, July 30, 2009

Enable root login in Fedora 10 (GNOME)

Log in as your average user, then elevate yourself to root (su -). First, make a backup of the file you’re about to edit:

# cp -a /etc/pam.d/gdm /etc/pam.d/gdm.orig

Now edit /etc/pam.d/gdm and change the line:

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

…to:

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user quiet

…save it, log out and now you can log back into GDM as root.

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