Friday, March 4, 2011

How To Enable root Login at Graphical in Fedora 13

In this howto we 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 configuring 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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