On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:30, David Pastern wrote: > Mark said: > > Subject: RE: gdm, log in as root? > > understand that sudo or fakeroot would be an even better solution, as > sudo use is logged as security concerns. > > Dave : I know that Mark. It more annoys me not having the ability there. > Even if I had it there i'd very rarely log on as root, but use fakeroot. > That's the common sense thing to do. Sometimes though...since updating to > kde 3.0.3 I can't su to fakeroot and start applications...I get an Xlib > error message : can't send to server, no permissions. Or something similar > to that. I did a bit of research to that the other nite, but didn't find > much. Was only a brief search. I got the suspicion (after todays thread on > GDM) that I might need to reconfigure kdm to allow fake root. I'll pursue > that path later. In the meantime i've been lazy, and logging out and going > in as root to perform system maintenance etc. Upgrading to gnome2 set esd > as the default sound daemon (even when logging onto kde) rather than oss. I > haven't sat down and investigated yet how to change it back. I had issues > on base install of woody getting audio to play when logged on as normal > user. That fixed itself when i got kde 3 running, but gnome 2 just stuffed > that all up by setting esd as default. And yes I added myself to audio > group, did chmod u+x on /dev/audio, /dev/cdrom, /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp ....I > had a play with gnome2 control panels etc but they are very unintuitive I > find. I presume resetting default sound daemon back to oss will fix things > and return them to normal in kde. *fingers crossed*. > > Dave
That's quite a rant. Did you ever get gdm set to allow root login, there is an option in gdmconfig? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]