Re: Some newbie questions

["Shea J. Hawes" <shawes@eou.edu>]

Thanks for the tips Jamin.  One more question though, if I am at the gdm
login screen, whats the best way to get a normal console login. 
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace which I have used to kill X in RedHat just restarts
gdm.

Thanks again,

Shea

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 16:19, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2002 15:37:56 -0700
> "Shea J. Hawes" <shawes@eou.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I am new to Debian as of yesterday, and still fairly new to Linux in
> > general.  I have mostly been using RedHat so when I set up Debian
> > yesterday, there were some differences that are causing me some
> > difficulty.  Number one, I can not log in as root with gdm.  The screen
> > shakes and tells me to try again.  
> 
> It's a _very_ bad idea to log into X as root.  Because of this, gdm (and
> others) are configured not to allow root login.  For gdm, you can alter
> this with gdmconfig, but I wouldn't advise doing this.
> 
> > fine.  Number two, I have not found a reliable way to get out of gdm
> > when I want to shutdown.  RedHat just had the option from the menu in
> > gdm to shutdown.  
> 
> This is another item you can change with gdmconfig.  Not exactly sure why
> it's not present, but I can hazard a few guesses.  
> 
> I normally issue my shutdown request from either a normal console or an X
> terminal.
> 
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