Re: Truly stupid menu seting
You can configure gdm to allow root login.
As user open xterm
su
root password
gdmconfig
Under options choose Expert and allow root to login with gdm.
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 00:08, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
>
> >ON the default woody install, one of the Gnome menu picks is :IDE setup
> >tool". Trying to run this as a suer results in the message that you need
> >to be root to run it. Cool.
> >
> >Trying to login as root using gdm is not allowed.
> >
> >Can anyone explain what the **k somebody was thinking when tehy set
> >this up!
>
> I think other "more user friendly" distros allow root logins and therefore
> comes in handy for them.
>
> I only remember that this as possible with RH6 (which I tried at least two
> years ago) so I may be remembering wrong
>
> also, xhost + is probably not the safest thing to do if untrusted machines
> have network access to your machine
>
>
> Shri
>
>
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