Root login

[Johan van der Walt <johan@fskdjvdw.puk.ac.za>]

I just now installed Woody and did a simple installation using only tasksel.
So Gnome is the display manager. However, it does not allow me to login as 
root. I need to install OpenOffice and to do that I have to login as root
but not from the console. 

How can I get past this problem?

Johan van der Walt