First you should know what login manager your using, try this from any console window... "ps -A" and check out what services you are running look for "gdm" or "kdm" or do a "ps -A | grep gdm" or "ps -A | grep kdm" and see what's running.
Can you "su" at the server? Do you know the root password for the server? > --- Ken Godee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > What login manager are you using? > > Kdm, Gdm...... > > If using Gdm (I'm not sure about others) I believe it > > defaults to not allow remote login by "root" > > for security reasons. This can be changed in gdm.conf. > > If not using Gdm, the others may have the same type of > > security setting. Many remote programs don't allow remote > > root login's, you should su anyway. > > Ken, > > Thank You. Just to be sure you underntand what I want: I want to login as root > at the diskless machine, not at the server. I don't know what login manager am > I using. I did the default LTSP install. You mean at the server? I think it is > Kdm as I use KDE. When I try to su at the diskless client it says the password > is wrong: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cpn]$ su > [Password: > su: incorrect password > > This is the the /opt/ltsp/etc/passwd: > > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/false > bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin: > +:::::: > > When I comment the line root it says the user root does not exist: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cpn]$ su > su: user root does not exist > > How could I know the root password? An empty password does not work. > > This is /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/pam.d/gdm: > > #%PAM-1.0 > auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok > auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so > account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so > password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so > password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok use_authtok > session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so > session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so > > Clodoaldo > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Busca Yahoo! > O servi�o de busca mais completo da Internet. O que voc� pensar o Yahoo! encontra. > http://br.busca.yahoo.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
