Shannon, I have Mandrake 9.1 on my home machine but I rarely go into it. However, I do remember that the default install "shadows" the root user from the login screen, but, if I remember right, you can go into the "Control Center", or whatever Mandrake calls it, and go to Login Options, or something like that, and make root visible. I seem to remember some discussion about this on one of the Mandrake forums as well. I just always go to a terminal and su.
Ed Richards I have someone here who has put Mandrake on his PC & Mac at home. The question he asked me is how to login as root. I do not use mandrake and I assume he is talking about logging in in a graphical mode. ie.. run level 5. I assume mandrake gives you a list of available user names? Seems cheesy to me, but that is my opinion. Anyway, I do not use Mandrake, so I do not know. Also, I did not go into the lecture of "you should not log in as root, use su or sudo...." I know some of the folks on here use Mandrake, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Shannon _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure of included information by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you are not a named recipient or authorized to receive and / or act on information sent to a named recipient, or have reason to believe you are not or should not be one of the named recipients, please notify sender accordingly by reply email and delete all copies of this message prior to forwarding, copying or otherwise reproducing this message or attachments thereto. For information regarding the export control status of items discussed in this document, please refer to the project control list. Thank you.
