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How To Enable Root Login at Graphical in Fedora 13

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

In this howto i will describe how to let root user to Graphical Login in Fedora 13. From Fedora 10 it was disable by default to let it login from GUI.We will be configure pam authentication files gdm and gdm-password respectively.





1: su

and enter ur password



2: vi /etc/pam.d/gdm

find following line

auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

comment out by placing # at beginning to disable this check

#auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

save and close the file.

step 3 is required for only from the fedora 13

3 vi /etc/pam.d/gdm.password

find following line

auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

comment out by placing # at beginning to disable this check

#auth       required    pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

save and close the file. Now logout from terminal or GUI and relogin with root from GUI.
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