I am not able to Login as a root in my fedora 11 machine

[nkjha]

Hello all,

I am not able to Login as a root in my fedora 11 machine , but I can login with other user. when I login with as a root user the error occured "user authentication failed " .
After login with user account when I open Terminal and try to login with same
username = root and Password= admin then I can login .
have you any idea about this ,Please reply .

Thanks a lot .
Nk

[coopstah13]

are you talking about logging in with root through the GUI?

by default this is disabled, it is a config parameter for GDM, it should be like system->administration->login window or something like that that has the option, i can't remember exactly

that aside, you shouldn't need to log in GUI as root most of the time, just use su in terminal and execute commands as root as needed..

[oz]

As indicated above by coopstah13, root user logins are generally not a good idea. If you need root permissions for admin tasks, an alternative to the su command if you don't want to use the command line is to use gksudo, or kdesu. For example:

for Gnome:

gksudo gedit file_name

for KDE:

kdesu kwrite file_name

[nkjha]

Actually I installed "the Gnome display manager"
for resolving some Gnome Desktop problem after that I was unable to
Login as root user .

But Now I am able to Login as root in GUI mode as earlier before
this problem .For resolving this I enable root login .


Thanks a Lot
nkjha

As indicated above by coopstah13, root user logins are generally not a good idea. If you need root permissions for admin tasks, an alternative to the su command if you don't want to use the command line is to use gksudo, or kdesu. For example:

for Gnome:

gksudo gedit file_name

for KDE:

kdesu kwrite file_name