Re: Root login to Windows X
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:30:33PM -0700, Francisco Castellon wrote:
> I just finished installing my first Debian system and I seem to not be
> able to log on to Windows X using the root account, I can easily log in
> with any other account though. I have tried choosing different types of
> sessions (Gnome, Debian, KDE, etc.) at the log in screen and it still
> keeps on saying: "The system administrator is not allowed to login from
> this screen."
That's right. It's bad to run more than you have to as root, and the
default installation deliberately prevents you from doing something
stupid. If you need to do something as root, open a terminal and type
su. If you need to run an X program for a moment as root (like to
enable non-root configuration in XCDRoast, etc), do this:
$ xhost +local:localhost
$ su
# <your command> &
# exit
Never log in as root when you don't have to, su or sudo instead.
- --
.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
`. `'`
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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