Re: Can't use GUI as root
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 07:34:32PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi Toshiro
> I'm on ppc Debian.
>
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 00:50, Toshiro wrote:
> > I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I try to
> > startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. I don't
> > have any problem using a normal user.
> >
> > Anybody know what's the problem?
>
> /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and/or /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
>
> If you change there this
> AllowRoot=false
> to
> AllowRoot=true
>
> then you should be able to login as root, IINM.
>
Thanks, but I wasn't trying to log in as root. Not very smart. What I
want is to be able to open a gui editor as root for an Xserver run by a
regular user.
I found the solution for wdm though, setting
DisplayManager._0.authorize: false
in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config and setting
-
local:
in /etc/X0.hosts
Still a bit lax but ok for single user machines.
I probably need to learn how to use xauth for better security.
> >From the
> "Gnome Display Manager Reference Manual" (Gnome Help Browser):
> "The Configuration File - gdm.conf"
>
> Excerpt:
> -------------------------
> AllowRoot
> AllowRoot=true
>
> Allow root (privileged user) to log in through GDM. Set this to false if
> you want to disallow such logins. On systems that support PAM, this
> parameter is not as useful as you can use PAM to do the same thing, and
> in fact do even more. However it is still followed, so you should
> probably leave it true for PAM systems.
> ---------------------
>
> HTH
>
> Best Regards
> Wolfgang
>
> >
> > Toshiro.
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