Trick to Login as a root from GUI in Fedora 10


Hi Friends,

In Fedora 10 You cannot login from gui as a root.By Default only users
are allowed to login from gui mode.

If You want to login as a root from gui in fedora 10 then you have to
edit something like this

Go to pam.d directory

cd /etc/pam.d/

then first take a backup of gdm file
cp gdm gdm.bak ( always take backup if anything goes wrong you can
correct it by original file)

after taking backup

open gdm file in your favorite editor from /etc/pam.d/ folder

vim gdm

then you will find one line like this

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

remove != root (this part from line)

After Edit line will look like this

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user quiet (Remember Spaces
are also important)

After edit save file logout and try to login as a root from gui ( if
anything wrong then overwrite your original file from single user
mode )

Now you are able to login as a root from gui.

Friends if i am wrong then sorry for that if any correction in this
then please let me know.

Thanks & Regards,
Tejas Barot