Comments on: Fedora 10: unable to authenticate user and reenabling the root login access.

By: sridhar

sridhar — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:51:46 +0000

Thanks
It is working now
In Fedora 12
su - root or su - (it is working in command prompt)
cp -aR /etc/pam.d/gdm /etc/pam.d/gdm.old
comment out as above mentioned ( vim or nano )
as well as
cp -aR /etc/pam.d/gdm-password /etc/pam.d/password.old
and restart the system login with root user

By: haari

haari — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:45:26 +0000

hi, thanks , it worked.

By: Jason Tomb

Jason Tomb — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:31:03 +0000

AWESOME HELP!!!…thank you so much.

By: Tom Kacperski

Tom Kacperski — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:39:55 +0000

Bah! My bad. You need to login as root through the terminal login screen. (Do that often enough and it gets taken for granted.) Just updated the steps above to reflect this.

Cheers & Good Luck!

By: NOvein

NOvein — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:21:17 +0000

thanx for the support!
but, when i tried it in my newly installed Fedora 10 from live cd, i get the following
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cp -aR gdm gdm.old
cp: cannot create regular file `gdm.old’: Permission denied

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the same happens when i try to edit the file gdm.
is there any other way, i can edit this thing! pls help….