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Re: root login How ???



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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:26:46AM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote:
> Under gdmsetup, you can allow root logins and remote root logins through
> GDM via the Security tab.

No!  Do *NOT* do this!  Log in as a normal user, open your favorite
terminal, and type su -m and run your X programs as root from the
resulting shell.

- -- 
 .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :'  :    proud Debian admin and user
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