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Re: root login How ???



On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:35:56PM -0400, Victory wrote:
| I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
| try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop Manager
| and it said " The system administrator is not allowed to login form this
| screen"

That's right.

| How to login with root account to run some utility from graphic mode ???

You don't.

You log in as yourself, then you run 'su' in a terminal to switch to
root.  Then from that shell you can run the utility.  You _really_
don't want to run an entire desktop environment as root.  You only
want to run the administrative tool you need as root.

-D

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