On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:35 +1000, Josh Shone wrote: > I want log in as root. Discovered that you can allow for this in KDE by > adjusting "AllowRootLogin=true" in the file kdmrc. Cannot do this
This is only for a graphical login. You do not need to do this to use su. > su > (My root password) > > and tada: > > su: Authentication Failure Bottom line is you are using the wrong password. Maybe capslock, you used punctuation instead of digits, or something else. There is a possibility that you have been hacked and the hacker has changed the password. Happened to me on a non-root account once. Finally you may simply have to remove the root password then create a new one. There are ways to achieve this if you need to. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
