On 2005-04-25, kenny B penned: > hi. i am new to debian, and when i try to login, it says "the system > administrator is not allowed to login from this screen" is there a > different way i can login as the system administrator? > Have you tried logging in as your normal user and using 'su -' from there? Even better, read up on the 'sudo' command. -- monique Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html