On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 20:21, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 16 March 2003 10:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > I'll give you one scenario where I log in as root all the time... > > Install fests. I'm sure all of these people don't want a user james on > > their box....another is when a friend calls up and says... It won't work > > can you help... I log in as root so I don't have to keep asking them > > for the root password... once is enough this way. > > > > As for the very real problem here. It comes with upgrades. (if an > > upgrade shouldn't be done then remove the option from the installer.) > > If you are running kdm now, with users hidden ( a prudent move I might > > add.) and you upgrade.... You can't log in as anyone! It keeps the old > > settings and won't allow you to login period. (had this happen with one > > of our senior programmers and boy was he pissed .... kept talking about > > getting his solaris box back *grin*) There it is a very real problem. > > The only way to fix it is to log in as root from tty1 and edit by hand > > kdmrc (or edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop to say gdm not kdm) and restart X > > Not a very user friendly option. > > > > IMAO (yes the A does stand for what you think *grin*) it's a case of > > fixing what wasn't really broken. But that's not my say. > > > > James > > And by the way, we have a dm that does not allow root login, but a new config > tool that must be run from a gui as root. Anybody have the details on this?
as root from a term window type drakedm .... Haven't found it anyplace in the menu... doesn't mean it's not there, just that I haven't found it. It's 4 radio buttons (kdm mdkkdm gdm and tdm ) and it does need you to get out of X and restart to activate. James
