Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:33:31AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. That's a Good Thing. Log in as a normal user and run what you

Re: How to login as ROOT at start

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://learn.to/quote please. On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:10:57PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: While working as USER, I usually use following command on Konsole window to login as ROOT to do administration work, starting applications ssh -X [EMAIL

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-13 Thread Albert Dengg
Hi If you really want to do this (it was discussed a few times here why not to do it), and you want to to login with gdm edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and change AllowRoot= (or even AllowRemoteRoot=) to true and you should be fine. I don't know about gdm though. If it is a machine with only one user at a

How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Stephen Liu: How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. Hi. I bought this really neat gun yesterday, and now I'd like to try it out. Problem is, I can't get the ammunition into the thing. Can

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. Although the person who said you shouldn't is probably right, with Gnome try (at the login screen)

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager popup. I am only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu Why on God's green earth would you log in to ANY GUI as root? -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: How to login as ROOT as start

2003-12-12 Thread Debian User
why not log in to your gui as a common user and su as root from a shell? anyway, i cannot anything in /etc/gnome that would limit who has access to the gui. At Friday, 12 December 2003, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, How can I login as ROOT after

Re: How to login as ROOT at start

2003-12-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi David, Thanks for your advice. While working as USER, I usually use following command on Konsole window to login as ROOT to do administration work, starting applications ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because my Debian box is newly installed, not properly setup, X-window