Sunday, 27 January 2013

How To Enable root Login at Graphical in Fedora 13


How To Enable root Login at Graphical in Fedora 13

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.
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.
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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