there is, but i'd caution you that this is what's called the Wrong Way of solving your problem. a better way would be to, as you described, log in as a normal user, spawn a terminal and su (or sudo) to do what you need. if root's bash_profile settings aren't getting executed, try using su - instead of just su. hth sean On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 03:56:25PM -0500, Charles Blair wrote: > I would like to login as "root". However, the X display I'm getting > as default won't let me. It will let me become superuser later, but > this seems to mess up some of my bash_profile settings. I hope there's > a simple way to allow root logins. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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