Login as a root from GUI Fedora 11
Hi Friends,
WARNING :- Its not at all good to login as root from GUI. It’ DANGEROUS. BUT if some one wants to know that how to login as a root from GUI then follow the steps instructions.
In Fedora 11 You cannot login from gui as a root.By Default only users are allowed to login from gui mode.
I Managed to Login as a root from GUI on Fedora 11. Follow these steps and you will able to Login as a root from GUI on Fedora 11
If You want to login as a root from GUI in fedora 11 then you have to edit something like some files which are located to /etc/pam.d/
Open your Te rminal from Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal
Now Login as a root from your terminal
Step 1 :- [itsolutions@ask4itsolutions.com]$ su – root
Password:-
Step 2:- Now go to your /etc/pam.d/ directory.
[root@ask4itsolutions]# cd /etc/pam.d/
Then first take a backup of gdm file
cp gdm gdm.bkp ( always take backup if anything goes wrong you can correct it by original file)
Step 3 :- Now Open gdm file in your favourite editor. I am using vi as my editor.
[root@ask4itsolutions pam.d]# vi gdm
Find and Comment or remove this line into your gdm file auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
Step 4 :- Save & Exit From that File. ( In Fedora10 Till step 4 is enought to Login as a root from GUI but for Fedora 11 you need one more file to edit otherwise you cannot Login as a root even though you edited gdm file).
Step 5 :- Here is the additional file that you need to edit and that file name is gdm-password. Open gdm-password file in your favourite editor. I am using vi as my editor.
Then first take a backup of gdm-password file
cp gdm-password gdm-password.bkp ( always take backup if anything goes wrong you can correct it by original file)
[root@ask4itsolutions.com pam.d]#vi gdm-password
Find and Comment or remove this line into your gdm file auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
Step 6 :- Save & Exit from File. Now Press CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE or Logout and Try to Login as a root user. Now you are able to Login as a root user from GUI in FEDORA 11.
If you are using Fedora 11′s Fingerprint Feature to Login as a root from GUI then you need to edit one more file also
Step 7 :- Here is the additional file that you need to edit for fingerprint root login and that file name is gdm-fingerprint. Open gdm-fingerprint file in your favourite editor. I am using vi as my editor.
Then first take a backup of gdm-password file
cp gdm-fingerprint gdm-fingerprint.bkp ( always take backup if anything goes wrong you can correct it by original file)
[root@ask4itsolutions.com pam.d]#vi gdm-fingerprint
Find and Comment or remove this line into your gdm file auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
Step 6 :- Save & Exit from File. Now Press CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE or Logout and Try to Login as a root user. Now you are able to Login as a root user from GUI in FEDORA 11
Thanks
Enjoy Stuff from root 
Enjoy Fedora 11
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Hello,
Absolutely right.
If you login as “root” you can manage your Windows applications in a much easier way (using Wine) and you’ll have full control of everything on the computer, using the command line in FC11. Thanks for the great tutorial!
It worked perfectly for my FC11, thank you!:-)
Thanks.
great tutorial, it works.
apreciated
I was looking for crucial info on this subject. The information was important as I am about to launch my own portal. Thanks for providing a missing link in my business.
Thanks buddy, it works for me at F10.
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Kenneth Oden
dont copy type…
su root
your password
cd /etc/pam.d/
now i used gedit no vi so
gedit gdm not vi gdm worked for me anyways may help you to best of luck.
Thanks, I had this problem with fedora 10 as well.
But once I got past this fedora is great !
I’m just not a Linux madman its a hell of alot easier for me to setup me SMB and httpd from root, I tried adding myself to wheel group and using sudo from de user account but with no luck… again thanks for your time posting this helpful info..
Hello Kenneth,
Try carefully because most of the people got success.
Hello,
I’ve tried these steps in order to log-on the root user in Fedora 11, without any success. After typing the root password, the message “unable to open session” appears.
I’ve seen similar forums has mentioned the following:
“Do you have gdm running as unconfined_t?”
How do I enable this?
– Kenneth
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Thank you very much.
It is those fine details which make the difference.
That gdm-password editing ended a headache.
That is great. Thanks a lot.
Cool!
Thanks, but fedora sux.
fedora dont have locale purge.
ridiculous
Thank You! your instructions are great and it works!