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Re: Root login



On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:18:58PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

I suggest that you install sudo and set yourself up in /etc/sudoers
(using visudo). Then you can run commands as root without logging in
as root. You could also just su to root in a window but then there are
X display authorization issues you will have to work out.

-- Mark

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