On Monday 28 July 2003 01:25 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2003 11:12 am, fifner the dragon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have my mandrake 9.1 setup to automaticly log "user" in at startup.
> >
> > When I logout "user" I get a small box giving me three alternatives:
> > halt, reboot and a "user" icon.
> >
> > I might be blind or stupid or both, but I cannot find a way to log in as
> > root.
> >
> > How do I login as root?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Fifner
>
> Fifner, where ya been, long time since we've seen the name on the list.
> Anyway, if you absolutely have to log in as root, and you know that's bad,
> open up the KDE control center and select System>loginmanager>users and
> you should see that root has a check in the box for hidden user. So click
> on the admin mode box below and give it your root passwd and uncheck the
> box. Next time login will show root user. HTH ( hope your using KDE
> otherwise I haven't figured out the cli way of doing this.)
Hello,
When I got to the logon GUI, I CTRL-SHIFT-ESCed (or c-s-del, I can never
remember what it is) out of x, logged on as root, then ran 'startx.'
Jim.
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