Re: Gnome & GDM - root login?
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:46:30PM -0500, Michael Dickey 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,
This is how you're supposed to do it.
| but how do I actually do a root login and use Gnome as root
tell gdm that you really do want to allow root to login
(but you don't want that)
| so I can configure it?
Why would you want to configure _root's_ gnome desktop? Root isn't
supposed to login to the desktop in the first place. If you want to
configure your son's gnome desktop, then log in to a console as root,
su to your son, run gnome, and then you can configure _his_ desktop.
(or just go to his home directory and adjust the files by hand)
HTH,
-D
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"GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and
impossible to accomplish complex actions."
--Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)
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