RE: Gnome & GDM - root login?
Michael Dickey <mdickey@yahoo.com> wrote:
Seems a silly question, but...
Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the
Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I cannot login as root - I always get
the message "The system administrator is not allowed to login from this
screen" I can do some system admin stuff from an xterm if I su root, but how
do I actually do a root login and use Gnome as root so I can configure it?
Michael
There is a setting in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf you can change to allow root
logins. Depending on the version of Debian you are using (and hence the
version of GDM installed) the exact location may be different. I have
not used Debian "Stable" in over a year, but here is the command from my
Debian "Testing" install.
[security]
AllowRoot=true
AllowRemoteRoot=false
AllowRemoteAutoLogin=false
RelaxPermissions=0
RetryDelay=3
UserMaxFile=65536
SessionMaxFile=524288
VerboseAuth=false
The "key" line is the "AllowRoot=true" line. Also in the version of GDM
that I have here (2.2.5.2-2 from "dpkg -l gdm"), you can edit these
settings from the GDM splash screen...dunno about yours. Your best bet
if you can login via XTERM is to manually edit the file with a text editor.
The GDM manual on my machine is an html document at:
The full gdm manual is installed as
/usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/C/index.html on your system.
This is only a brief summary - the HTML manual is the
canonical documentation.
I find it fascinating reading <g>. There are LOTs of config "goodies"
that you can do with GDM... things like putting a "face" browser with pics
of all the users, setting up XDMCP, etc.
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
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