Miles Fidelman wrote:
MPR wrote:On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:Darac Marjal wrote:Log in as root?Effectively that's what I want. BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :<Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID and GID for your login to 0 (which effectively makes you root). Then "chown -R root:root /home/username" to your home directory. Now you can log in with your username but you will be root.you might try using expert mode when installing, and then answering yes when the installer asks about enabling root login,
That did not work.
or.. google "debian enable root login" and you'll find multiple ways to enable root login after the fact
I'll check that out.
(note: it's a good idea to disable remote telnet login before doing so; maybe install ssh if you want remote access)
Not necessary. There is not now, nor will there be any connection to the rest of the world.
Subject line indicated I wished to tame _Debian's_ paranoia. I never had any intention of eliminating any of my own ;!