Re: can't login as root on gdm
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 11:18:53AM -0400, Icarus wrote:
> Hello. I just installed debian woody along with the window enviroment (gnome, sawfish). When I get to the GDM login screen I cannot log in as root. I'd like to be able to use the GUI as root, but when I switch consoles I still can't use startx (because the x-server is already running).
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> I tried killing the x-server on console 7 but can't. I am sent back to the GDM login screen.
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> Does anyone know I can resolve this problem. Thanks.
I believe this is not a problem, but is a feature recently added to debian.
If you want to do something as root, first log on as a user, then use 'su'
to switch to root. This is safer than giving root rights to every process
running under X and Gnome/KDE.
paul
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