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On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Smith, Herb herb.sm...@boeing.com wrote:
All,
This may be a dumb question, but I noticed that with my upgrade to FC10,
the login page no longer allows me to login as root. I'm
Smith, Herb wrote:
All,
This may be a dumb question, but I noticed that with my upgrade to FC10,
the login page no longer allows me to login as root. I'm sure this is a
feature, but the question is, how does one login as root these days? I
can still su to root in a command window, no
Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +, John Horne wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you
from logging in as the root user.
Check the archives. I seem to recall a
Fred Silsbee wrote:
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Subject: F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login
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On Thursday 04 December 2008 17:33:22 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +, John Horne wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you
from logging in as the
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 13:05 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
When you are attempting to debug why drivers and such are not working,
being root saves time which is saving money. Once things work, then I go
back to 'normal'.
Yes, I often open a terminal window and su, and then 'nautilus ', but
Tony Molloy wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2008 17:33:22 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +, John Horne wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to
--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Tony Molloy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Tony Molloy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: F10 - I REALLY want to log in as root -- was Re: root login
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
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Date: Thursday, December 4
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 13:38:18 Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:08 +, Tony Molloy wrote:
If you had installed using the askmethod method you could have set
the static address at install time.
Have things changed, because all that did, in the past, was the
configuration of the
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On Tuesday 02 December 2008 13:38:18 Tim wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:08 +
Nick wrote:
Hi All
With F10 if I use DHCP to assign my IP address everything goes OK
I get an IP address and a subnet mask and I get access to the interent
If I try to statically assign the IP address
Example 192.168.1.118 255.255.255.240 (please don’t complain about the
range
On Tuesday 02 December 2008 12:39:31 Nick wrote:
Hi All
With F10 if I use DHCP to assign my IP address everything goes OK
I get an IP address and a subnet mask and I get access to the interent
If I try to statically assign the IP address
You need to manually edit
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:08 +, Tony Molloy wrote:
If you had installed using the askmethod method you could have set
the static address at install time.
Have things changed, because all that did, in the past, was the
configuration of the network for the installation (if the network is
Hi All
With F10 if I use DHCP to assign my IP address everything goes OK
I get an IP address and a subnet mask and I get access to the interent
If I try to statically assign the IP address
Example 192.168.1.118 255.255.255.240 (please don't complain about the range
it's only an
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you
from logging in as the root user.
Not that I have noticed. I installed F10 on my home PC at the weekend.
Installed the KDE desktop, and not GNOME. Logged straight in as root.
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 14:34 +, John Horne wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you
from logging in as the root user.
Not that I have noticed. I installed F10 on my home PC at the weekend.
Installed
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:34:51PM +, John Horne wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:23 -0800, bruce wrote:
appparently f10, has modified the default behavior to restrict you
from logging in as the root user.
Not that I have noticed. I installed F10 on my home PC at the weekend.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:23:46 -0800
Nifty Fedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check the archives. I seem to recall a pam change that does
limit the login devices for 'root'.
Yea, but the pam stuff is used only by gdm. If you run kdm,
you could always login as root.
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how do I enable root login
Edit /etc/pam.d/gdm, find the line with the expression that
says something like user != root on the end of the line and
remove that expression from the end of the line.
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Nick Price wrote:
how do I enable root login
i normally do not reply to 'text/html' post, but this time i am making
and exception. [see guidelines link at bottom line of post]
i will guess that you are booting run 'level 5', so open a terminal,
su
.
if you're using f9, get back to us...
peace
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Nick Price wrote:
how do I enable
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 14:35 +, Nick Price wrote:
Hi all
Just downloaded F10 and when I try to login as root i get unable to
authenticate user
so i logged in as myself and then su but each time I want to change
system settings it keeps asking me for the root password
Did you
26, 2008 16:10
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Nick Price wrote:
how do I enable root login
i normally do not reply to 'text/html' post, but this time i am making
and exception. [see guidelines link at bottom line of post]
i will guess
nick...
do this...
su - root
password: whatever it is
edit /etc/pam.d
vi /etc/pam.d (or use your favorite editor)
look for a line that has:
user != root (or something like that)
comment out the line, or delete it...
save the file, log out, log back in, end you should be able to access as
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bruce wrote:
nick...
do this...
su - root
password: whatever it is
edit /etc/pam.d
vi /etc/pam.d (or use your favorite editor)
that would be a good trick, seeing as how /etc/pam.d is a directory.
if he changes 'inittab', then he
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Nick wrote:
Tried that when I go to save it I get a error message that I don’t have
the permissions necessary to save the file.
If I do a whoami I am root
Where do I go from here
then there may be some other problems.
at boot screen, press
Hi All
Many thanks got it fixed now by editing the gdm file
Nick
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Hi All
Many thanks got it fixed now by editing the gdm file
Nick
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bruce wrote:
not sure why some kept telling you to deal with the init file...
good. if you do not know then those of us who do will continue to
keep it a secret.
moral of story: be careful when taking advice of people you don't know!!!
you can
of salt!
relax, have some turkey!
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