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Re: login as root to GUI



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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:47:05AM +0200, Antonio Guti?rrez Mayoral wrote:
> In GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager) you should to set this option before you
> can login as root:
> 
> ( /etc/gdm/gdm.conf )
> AllowRoot=true
> 
> and next type /etc/init.d/gdm restart
> 
> Then you should be able to login as root in gdm.

Note that this is *not* the preferred method for doing this, as it
encourages the windowsish tendancy of always logging in as root, which
is both not necissary and potentially extremely harmful.

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