On Thursday 29 April 2004 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: <snip> > o No longer any option to login to X as root. I know they > discouraged this anyway, but when doing sys admin work, it was > more convenient that repeatedly supplying the root password, and > certainly safer than having the various admin tools remember the > root password (I'm surprised they even offer such an option, > since it grants root access to anyone with physical access). </snip>
Ron, this is not enterily true. I'll take it that you use the default display manager, something like mandkrakeDM, but if you change that to KDM (K Display Manager) you'll get the option to log in as root. When doing so, you'll be presented with a red screen, some warnings about running as root, a button to log out immidiately and no icons. By ignoring all this, you are root in X and can run whatever you like, and destroy whatever Murphy's law dictates. To change your display manager, go to System --> Configuration --> Configure your computer --> System --> Display Manager. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 *
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