I cannot login as root or su in graphical mode (haven't tested cmd line as i'm still newbie ). What i have read is that this is by default disabled... can this be enabled?.. if so how please? I am running core13 on toshiba laptop (this issue also on "live" cd)if above is not possible have u a section/training pages for us "newbies"
View 14 RepliesCan't seem to do it, wondering if anyone knows how? Normally there's something in sshd_config that can be switched to true or yes to allow root login but I can't see it in fedora 12.I can login via root at a terminal no problem, just not via ssh, I get access denied every time. Also, I need to login using password authentication.I've done: 227169 but that's just for GUI which I don't really need since I rarely ever log into the GUI.I have also searched through here and mostly only found info such as above, how to enable root login for GUI, or billions of posts about how logingin as root is bad but I cannotswer to my question.DISCLAIMER: Please do not reply to this thread if all you can contribute is the question of why I need root or to put some message telling me I can do everything using su, etc, etc. Please only contribute if you can answer my question. A: My machine and a valid quesiton. B: Spirit of Linux is open, not restrictive
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to login as root but i end up with an error that says: su: Authentication failure
View 10 Replies View Relatedis there a "debug" method for your wireless connection. My authentication for 2 laptops Dell d600 and IBM t42 both are unable to connectreless routers (2 different ones).Fedora 14 32bit Gnome NetworkManager
View 13 Replies View RelatedI've setup dimdim (opensource, centos 5.3) and noticed yum & rpm commands fail when executed as root because it uses librpmio from openoffice3 instead of /usr/lib (I'm running from memory so I may have misstyped). But sudo doesn't have this problem.
How can root's search path be different, especially after I state /usr & /usr/lib at the top of /etc/ld.so.conf.
after doing a partial yum update and configuring cyrus and installing splunk my server box is not logging in to any of the users i have setup on it.to setup the cyrus server i used pam authentication so my assumption it could be that or somthing with the splunk install which i left default to /opt/.im running an old kernel i think its fc11 29 .pae in my boot logs i dont see that anything failed to run but it still does't let me logonk
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to upgrade Fedora 12 to 13. I get an error screen that said root could not be found. Four options are given. Not sure exactly their wording, but two appear to allow you to cancel the other two warn that if you reinitialize you will wipe out all data.
I have a Vista partition and a Fedora partition. I've added the vista ntfs partition to fstab with no help. All of the partition use the long UUID form. I added the root location (root (hd0,5) to the upgrade menu item in grub.conf and that didn't work either.
I'm reluctant to proceed for fear of initializing the entire drive. I could live with installing Fedora 13 over the existing partitions.
I edited the passwd file to modify the default shell for root from bash to tcshnow when I try to login to root it gives me the following error:"su: /bin/tcsh : No such file or directory"
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have installed fedora 14 in my computer. I installed some applications from root. I created a user id. I am unable to install my internet (broadband connection) now. every time it shows the error "Authentication failure" "install from root" something like that. How can I switch between user and root. Or how can I login as root again?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was trying to install winbind on a RHEL5 machine and I had to reboot the RHEL machine. When it came back up, I'm not able to log in as root or any other user.When I use root and give a random password, it says invalid username or password but when I use the correct password, I get an Authentication failed pop up box (under GUI). SSh window says invalid password for random passwords and the SSH window disappears when I type in the right password.Can you please let me know if I can somehow get back in by stopping any of the services
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just got Fedora 12, and I used su root to change the bin ownership to my primary developer account. For some reason, though, all subsequent attempts to log in as root have had authentication failure, be it through su or through the startup login screen. This does NOT occur for adminstrator tools such as Groups and Users.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI just installed Red Hat 6 but when I try to login it prompts me to enter a "Smartcard Authentication" instead of a user name.Does anyone know how to get pass this? and just login with the user name I created or the root? I tried logging using root and a regular user but it always keeps asking me to enter a smart card.Here's a screenshot of the login screen:Code: i901.photobucket.com/albums/ac211/0xGFX007/smart.png
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just installed Fedora 12 on a laptop. I changed the default shell on the root account to /bin/tcsh and changed the runlevel to 3 and then rebooted. Now I can't login into the root account: it returns me immediately to the login prompt and I can't see any error message (the screen is cleared).Why is this happening?Can I boot into some sort of safe mode so I can undo my changes to the /etc/inittab and /etc/passwd file?I tried booting with a Live CD with the intention of mounting the filesystem and making the changes, but the new filesystem is a LVM and it won't let me mount it (or I don't know how to mount a Logical Volume).
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow to disable the NTFS drives root password authentication?When I try to access the NTFS drives for the first time after logging in, the system is asking for root password authentication.How can I disable this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow to enable Root login...i cant copy or move something on the HDD...I have administrator rights and password for root but i cant change permissions for the HDD without login on root and root login are not allowed .
View 10 Replies View RelatedSomething has gone awry with my login. After the usual username/password prompt my laptop comes up with smart card authentication & I can't login. How do I get away from the graphical login so I can login & correct the problem?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been faithfully following the postfix/sasl/etc install docs from [URL] and seem to have hit a minor snag with SASL authentication for SMTP. KMail cryptically leaves me with a generic auth fail notice and tailing the mail logs gives me
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I notice that by default KDM lets you login as root, yet on GDM is disable. How can I enable GDM to let me login as root, and how to I disable the feature on KDM?
View 3 Replies View RelatedJust downloaded and installed 14.I have downloaded XAMPP as a user and extracted it to the desktop.Now I need to move it to the opt folder and I cannot do that - insufficient permission. When I try to switch user to root it does not accept the password even though I know I am using the correct pw because I can bring up terminal, do su, enter the pw and get terminal access.How do I log in as root or how do I move the folder to opt as a general user?
View 8 Replies View RelatedIn Fedora 10, How to login as root user in Graphical User Interface?
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhenever I try to open a file using gedit as a super user in fedora 14, i get the following error (gedit:2975): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported ** GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL) Aborted (core dumped) I've googled the problem, but nowhere comprehensive solution is said to be found.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using fedora 12 along with Windows XP the problem is I'm unable to login as root but I'm able to authenticate with the same password as another user.
View 4 Replies View RelatedCan we log into the gui login screen with root under Fedora 12 because I keep getting an Authentication Failure even when I change the password to a simple password named password? I can login under root in the terminal and when ever it requests the root password in a regular user account.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi installed FC 13 the version was kde and i installed gnome using yum, edit /etc/pam.d/gdm and /etc/pam.d/gdm-password
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am running Fedora 14 and can set my box for SSH after I login as root.
My question is I can script this process but how would I enable the root in the script? Also is there any way I can configure this in the OS where when the machine boots up I can log in remote so SSH will always be on.
I am running a Linux box an would like it to act as a server but keep in mind that it wont always be on and I only use it for educational purposes.
Well I did something pretty stupid and now I can't log in with my user other than the root user. Basically, I wanted to change my username and so I when to the admin > user & accounts - and selected the account I wanted to change. Anyway I did that and then logged out. Since then all I get when I reseted is a spinning mouse ball and a black screen. I can get into the shell prompt - but I'm not sure how I'd go about fixing this issue I created. At the moment I'm logged in the shell with root, and if I type 'id' I can see my old username, but I think the links behind it are broken.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am using RHEL 5 client with Gnome Desktop.
i have a few questions
1)Is it possible for the Root to have auto login?
2)If yes please could any one Guide me.
3)If Not, i want to use /(slash)("root@localhost" instead of "user@localhost") directory directly with out entering the root password in the created user.
I have a problem to login with the root user from gui (I use Gnome). The root password is ok. Is there a way for me to logon with the user root in gnome?
View 1 Replies View Relatedthis issue started with F10 and now F11. please how do i login as root during the login prompt or do i need to enable any script of SELinux?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a problem, I have installed Fedora 11. And i need to login as root user.
How to do so?