RE: gdm, log in as root?
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:30, David Pastern wrote:
> Mark said:
>
> Subject: RE: gdm, log in as root?
>
> understand that sudo or fakeroot would be an even better solution, as
> sudo use is logged as security concerns.
>
> Dave : I know that Mark. It more annoys me not having the ability there.
> Even if I had it there i'd very rarely log on as root, but use fakeroot.
> That's the common sense thing to do. Sometimes though...since updating to
> kde 3.0.3 I can't su to fakeroot and start applications...I get an Xlib
> error message : can't send to server, no permissions. Or something similar
> to that. I did a bit of research to that the other nite, but didn't find
> much. Was only a brief search. I got the suspicion (after todays thread on
> GDM) that I might need to reconfigure kdm to allow fake root. I'll pursue
> that path later. In the meantime i've been lazy, and logging out and going
> in as root to perform system maintenance etc. Upgrading to gnome2 set esd
> as the default sound daemon (even when logging onto kde) rather than oss. I
> haven't sat down and investigated yet how to change it back. I had issues
> on base install of woody getting audio to play when logged on as normal
> user. That fixed itself when i got kde 3 running, but gnome 2 just stuffed
> that all up by setting esd as default. And yes I added myself to audio
> group, did chmod u+x on /dev/audio, /dev/cdrom, /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp ....I
> had a play with gnome2 control panels etc but they are very unintuitive I
> find. I presume resetting default sound daemon back to oss will fix things
> and return them to normal in kde. *fingers crossed*.
>
> Dave
That's quite a rant. Did you ever get gdm set to allow root login,
there is an option in gdmconfig?
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