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Re: GNOME destop manager.



> Hi,
> I finally got woody installed on my cpu. I'm now
> trying to get my printer to work. When I try signing on
> as root thru the GNOME deskop mgr I get a message
> informing me that root is not allowed to sign-on
> thru the GDM. Is there a way I can override this?
> later-
> Wayne

Yep, in the file /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf is the entry "AllowRoot=false" (in
the section [security])

Change it to true, restart gdm and it should work!

HTH

Jos



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