Re: log in through root

On 28 March 2010 20:26, agraham <agraham@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 28/03/10 09:29, Rajanish Kumar wrote:
Hi!
  I have already installed Fedora 12 .I have given root password...and
finally added a user name "rajanish"
.I am log in through "rajanish"but i have not accessing throgh root...I want
to log in through root because i want to learn administrative property.
  please help me to guide log in through root..

At the login prompt (or your graphical login program - gdm, kdm etc)
use the username "root" and password that you set when installing Fedora.

Nice idea, but it won't work unless you enable it:
http://linuxers.org/quick-tips/fedora-12-enable-root-login-gui

Please ignore all those that present horror stories and FUD about root,
you have to learn somehow and the best way is to mess around as root.

I disagree and I am a professional Linux sysadmin. I never login as root.

Unlike a normal user, your path with will include /sbin so you won't
need to prepend root commands with a path e.g. /sbin/ifconfig.

You can add /sbin and /usr/sbin to your normal path if this is a
problem for you. I do this and then I login as a normal user and use
"sudo" or "su -c" to prefix any commands I want to run as root.

And if you happen to do something like  "rm -rf /", just re-install and
start-over, I'm sure you'll learn from your mistakes like we all did.

No comment ;o)

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