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Bug#586555: marked as done (Difficulty installing and using Debian)

Your message dated Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:26:01 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#586555: Difficulty installing and using Debian: not possible to login as root in X
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Package: Debian 5.0 CD

I downloaded the Debian 5.0 CD from the internet. I rebooted on the CD and installed the complete system. Everything works fine as a regular user. Next I tried to install, update, etc. system items and of course needed to be root. I tried to login as root in XWindow environment, but would not allow me. On installation of the package it asked if I wanted to login as root, I said YES.
I had talked to someone else before via e-mail from, I guess Debian, he told me, it was not Debian itself, it was the project group that did the outer shell the kernel used. Well, If I downloaded it from here, and I'm talking to the the people where I got the CD, I believe I found my source.
I've heard enough arguments about logging in as root in "X". Simply, when you're doing a number of things as root, either you don't know the name of the program or don't know all the commands required, which the GUI talkes care of. When you're a system administrator, you have the right to login to your own CONSOLE as ROOT under GUI. Someone is screwing with the code. I believe I can make a decision on my own system about ROOT use.
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retitle 586555 not possible to login as root in X
thanks

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:05:41AM -0400, Paul Ward wrote:
> Package: Debian 5.0 CD
> 
> I downloaded the Debian 5.0 CD from the internet. I rebooted on the
> CD and installed the complete system. Everything works fine as a
> regular user.

So the installation part was successful, great.

> Next I tried to install, update, etc. system items and
> of course needed to be root. I tried to login as root in XWindow
> environment, but would not allow me. On installation of the package
> it asked if I wanted to login as root, I said YES.

It is a default GDM configuration that you can change by typing
'gdmsetup'.

> I've heard enough arguments about logging in as root in "X".

Maybe not :-)

> Simply, when you're doing a number of things as root, either you don't
> know the name of the program or don't know all the commands required,
> which the GUI talkes care of. When you're a system administrator,
> you have the right to login to your own CONSOLE as ROOT under GUI.
> Someone is screwing with the code. I believe I can make a decision
> on my own system about ROOT use.

You should use su or gksu for performing specifing operation using a GUI.


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Simon Paillard

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