Can you login to root as a normal user?

Question

I was wondering if you could login as root, not through the terminal, but rather like you would if you made a normal user.

Answer 1

I have tried and it worked on Ubuntu 22.04.

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Try this

#set root password
sudo passwd root
sudo vim /etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin
##Annotate this line
#auth requied pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet success
sudo vim /etc/pam.d/gdm-password
##Annotate this line
#auth requied pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet success
vim /root/.profile

mesg n 2＞ /dev/null || true


tty -s && mesg n || true

Then reboot

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It's true that working directly under the root user is dangerous. It is more recommended to use sudo