Root Password doesn't work

[mbrad]

Thanks for taking the time to read my question.

I can do su - and then type in my root password and then change users, but if I try to log in to the root profile, the same password doesn't work.

What can I do to reset the root profile password?

Thanks,

Brad

[JohnVV]

that was disabled in the Gnome log in gui

search the forum , this has been discussed .

[Shiva01]

I' am not an expert may be a noob but i was wondering the same few hours ago, you just cannot log into root by the profile selector you have to do it when grub start ! or by terminal if i'am right

[mbrad]

Just tried http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...ofile+password and still unable to log in as root


any other ideas?

Brad

[markkuk]

As JohnVV already told you, logging in as root has been intentionally disabled in Gnome and changing the password won't have any effect on that.

[mbrad]

Sorry, I didn't catch that. Thanks for the clarification.

So what can I do? I'm really bad at the command line stuff, and much prefer the GUI for changing settings. Some of that stuff you can't do unless you log in as root. For example, change folder properties when root is the owner.

I've found chown and chmod, but am not great at it.

Brad

[Dangermouse]

This has been answered here lots of times, but here it is again. (not recommended and a security risk)

To enable login as root you need to comment out one line in two files

su
gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm

su
gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm-password

Locate the line/s that read as follows in both files

auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

Remove or comment out line in each of the two files by prefixing #.

# auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet

save and quit.

[mbrad]

Thank you so very much. I guess I wasn't putting in the correct search terms to enable the root profile.

Have a great day,

Brad

[troyatlarge]

One of the things with running a Linux system is commands in the terminal - it always is there sort of teasing you into learning just a little more (or at least it has been for me).

In Fedora they disabled what you want to do, the easy way, as I understand it, such that inexperienced people would not trash their systems on accident - for as root, you can trash your system very easy. For my own part I had to start learning the bash shell before I trashed my system, but that's a different story.

To do what you ask, so far as I know, you have to use the terminal and issue commands. From the terminal you go down to run level three or some such thing, as root, and then bring it back up as root and you have what you seek. The exact way to do that is on these boards somewhere - try a search for "root login" or some such thing.

[troyatlarge]

lol - I had not seen that method before! Personally I don't ever log in as root in the way you seek, not because it wouldn't be handy at times, but because I would rather actual learn something about commands in the terminal window. Good luck.