how to login as root in fedora 14

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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 instructions.

If You want to login as a root from GUI in Fedora 14 then you have to edit some files which are located to /etc/pam.d/

Open your Terminal from Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal

Now Login as a root from your terminal

Step 1 :

su -

Step 2:- Now go to your /etc/pam.d/ directory.

cd /etc/pam.d/

Then first take a backup of gdm file

cp gdm gdm.bkp

Note : (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.

vi gdm

Then comment out (##) or delete the entire highlighted line shown and save the file.

change this :

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

to this :

##auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

Step 4 :- Save & Exit From that File.

Step 5 :- Open gdm-password file in your favourite editor.

Then first take a backup of gdm-password file

cp gdm-password gdm-password.bkp

Note : (always take backup if anything goes wrong you can correct it by original file)

vi gdm-password

Then comment out (##) or delete the entire highlighted line shown and save the file.

change this :

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

to this :

##auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

Step 6 :- Save & Exit from File.

Log Out and and select Other on the Logon screen and type root for username.