Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Suse 11 Root Login

If you are having some problem rooting your Suse 11 GUI login
Open GUI terminal (bash prompt) and type the following command to become root
$ su

Make a backup of your login account
cp /etc/pam.d/login /root

Open the account using vi editor
vi /etc/pam.d/login

Find the follwing line :

Auth [user_unknown=ignore success=ok ignore=ingore auth_err=die default=bat] pam_securetty.so

and change it to
#Auth [user_unknown=ignore success=ok ignore=ingore auth_err=die default=bat] pam_securetty.so

Save and close the file.
Logout from SuSe and login again using the "root" account.

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