On Sunday 08 June 2003 10:46 am, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Hi, > Is there a reason why after logout of startup user not able to log in as > root - can only login as users - I liked it in Mandrake 9.0 - nice GUI to > modify whatever. - I am only user stand-alone pc > > Is there a way to do it like in 9.0.- or (maybe should create user with > root privilages?? - is this correct/possible??) > > Please some pointers will help.
Condescending Speech #1 Mandrake made it hard to login to the gui as root because it is dangerous and many people were running their entire machines as root. Very dangerous. Some say if you have to be told how to do it, you shouldn't be. Condescending Speech #2 Any app you need to run as root can be run at the command line. For instance, if you need to run Konqueror as root, open a terminal and su to root. Then type konqueror and hit return. Voila, Konqueror running as root. No need to log out then back in as root then out again and back in as a user. With all that, if you still want to do it. Go to the KDE Control Center, and in the System area there is a login manager choice. In that section on one of the tabs, you can set the root user to show up in the login manager. -- Greg
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