Michael Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seems a silly question, but... Just installed Gnome & GDM on my > son's computer along with a lot of the Debian-junior packages. Now I > find that I cannot login as root - I always get the message "The > system administrator is not allowed to login from this screen" I can > do some system admin stuff from an xterm if I su root, but how do I > actually do a root login and use Gnome as root so I can configure > it?
You probably don't want to use GNOME as root; the GNOME stuff does a lot of strange and mystical stuff, and in general you want to do as little as possible (and things you understand!) when being root. Running a small number of commands in an su session in an xterm is reasonable, as is running individual commands using sudo. If you must log in as root, a sensible place to do it is from a console login (press Ctrl+Alt+F1), or by booting your machine into single-user mode if you're particularly hosed. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
