Re: Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:17:54PM -0400, Dick Bayerl wrote: > I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with > the same problem. Debian and Ubuntu are a bit different on this issue. Since login to root using X displaymanager is not so good idea, I mention console tr

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread Lisi
On Friday 20 May 2011 11:02:08 Camaleón wrote: > Or a GUI text editor: > > gksu - gedit kdesu also works if you are using KDE. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://list

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:49:12AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > NOT xhots + !!! > If you have to widen, just do xhost +local: > > First command opens to the whole internet, second one only to connnections > from localhost. There are better methods than even xhost +local -- if you have a local ssh

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:52:42PM +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Thanks for correcting me, it's good to know it if the firewall allows > connections from the outside. Otherwise the security risk seems pretty low, > or am I missing something juicy here ? Well, it depends on the specifics

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:52:42PM CEST, "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" said: > 20/05/2011 11:49, Erwan David wrote: > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:04:26AM CEST, "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" > > said: > >> 19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote: > >>> I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNT

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
20/05/2011 11:49, Erwan David wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:04:26AM CEST, "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" > said: >> 19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote: >>> I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with >>> the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make cha

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 19 May 2011 12:17:54 -0400, Dick Bayerl wrote: > I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with > the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to > various files. What files? If you need to change a configuration file, use your preferred t

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:04:26AM CEST, "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" said: > 19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote: > > I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with > > the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to > > various files. Not the owner.

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread Joe
On Thu, 19 May 2011 12:17:54 -0400 Dick Bayerl wrote: > I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with > the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes > to various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on > a second machine and keepi

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-20 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote: > I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with > the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to > various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on a > second machine and keeping careful notes ab

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-19 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/2011 09:04 AM, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2011 12:17:54 -0400 > Dick Bayerl wrote: > >> I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with >> the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes >> to

Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-19 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 19 May 2011 12:17:54 -0400 Dick Bayerl wrote: > I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with > the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes > to various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on > a second machine and keepi

Re: Re: login as root to GUI

2011-05-19 Thread Dick Bayerl
I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on a second machine and keeping careful notes about the password to see if that will work. I

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:20:42PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > No, you should read RFC 2646. Format=Flowed solves this problem and > makes everyone happy, in theory. Not all systems understand the concept. If 2646 ever gets widely implimented, I m

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:58:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You completely missed the point. Well, now I am. Care to quote for context? http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :'

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:25:59PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Who said anything about HTTP? I referred you to a thread on d-curiosa > where the travesty of HTML email was being discussed; the poster > seemed to feel as you do that email technolog

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:49:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Technology has evolved. Programs have evolved (well, most of them have). > Practices should evolve as well. We don't all need to stay stuck in 1995. There's still a few sites stuck i

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
You completely missed the point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:49:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:47:54 -0600 > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > mutt does line wrap, but the default is ugly and hard to read. Many > > popular and useful MUAs don't do linewrap at all. Furthermore, how > >

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. This isn't meant to be picking on

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 >> columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. > > This isn

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Benjamin Rutt
Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've been considering this >> for a while. >> >> People shouldn't wrap lines at all in messages they send -- this is a >> hoary hold-over fr

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:47:54 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mutt does line wrap, but the default is ugly and hard to read. Many > popular and useful MUAs don't do linewrap at all. Furthermore, how > does someone effectively _quote_ text which is not linewrapped? Now > the loc

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've been considering this > for a while. > > People shouldn't wrap lines at all in messages they send -- this is a > hoary hold-over from the dark ages. while you are using debian maili

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And people who still use MUAs that can't do line wrap should consider > finding one that can. And there's still old VT100 terminals feeping away in many libraries. Personally, I don'

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:18:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 > > columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. > > This isn't meant t

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-03 Thread ronin2
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 > columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. This isn't meant to be picking on you. But I've

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote: > Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root > through the gui login screen. That's right. Log in as your normal user, open up your terminal of choice and type su -m at the

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:47:05AM +0200, Antonio Guti?rrez Mayoral wrote: > In GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager) you should to set this option before you > can login as root: > > ( /etc/gdm/gdm.conf ) > AllowRoot=true > > and next type /etc/init.d/gdm res

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72 columns per line instead of one paragraph per line. On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:50:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Being a newbie I had the same problem that you had I couldnt lo

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 18:04, Yaron wrote: > gdm Oh, yeah. That's right. There are 3 of them, I think. Mine was wbm. gdm and kdm are (at least some of) the others. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 17:19, Yaron wrote: > Hi, > Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root through the gui > login screen. > I get error msg "system administrator can't login from this screen" > If I login as 'normal' user it's ok, and than I can use su and switch to root,

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:23:02AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote: > > If I login as 'normal' user it's ok, and than I can use su and switch > > to root, but no matter what I tried, I can't login to the machine as > > root. (tried to delete all ot

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:50:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [something that wasnt wrapped @~80cols] > Being a newbie I had the same problem that you had I couldnt log onto > X with the root account. This is actually meant to be that way. The > reason being is that if you want to do any syste

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
> To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:10 AM > Subject: Re: login as root to GUI -- * You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life." * .''`.

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote: > Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root > through the gui login screen. Don't do that. Running X as root - or, indeed, running more as root than you have to in general - is bad security practice. You should run as a

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
ntonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:00 AM > Subject: Re: login as root to GUI -- * You're currently going through a difficult transition period calle

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
Thanks a lot, it worked ! Now I can go to sleep (3:15 a.m here) Yaron. - Original Message - From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:10 AM Subje

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:19:02AM +0200, Yaron wrote: > Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root through the gui > login screen. > I get error msg "system administrator can't login from this screen" i use xdm as my "gui login screen" and havent seen this message before. w

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:47 AM > Subject: Re: login as root to GUI -- * You'

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
gdm - Original Message - From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:00 AM Subject: Re: login as root to GUI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
#x27;s why i'm trying to 1st login as root... - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:50 AM Subject: Re: login as root to GUI > Hello: > > Being a newbie I h

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread castf
e command line, you are allowed to log in as root (Although still not recommended) and you can create a user account. I hope that helps! - Original Message - From: Yaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2003 5:19 pm Subject: login as root to GUI > Hi, > Since

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
It happens both with kde 3 and gnome 1.4 - Original Message - From: "Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 1:47 AM Subject: Re: login as root to GUI

Re: login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral
What login manager's do you use? In GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager) you should to set this option before you can login as root: ( /etc/gdm/gdm.conf ) AllowRoot=true and next type /etc/init.d/gdm restart Then you should be able to login as root in gdm. Regards. El jue, 03 de 04 de 2003 a las 02:19

login as root to GUI

2003-04-02 Thread Yaron
Hi, Since I rebooted my machine in the 1st time I can't login as root through the gui login screen. I get error msg "system administrator can't login from this screen" If I login as 'normal' user it's ok, and than I can use su and switch to root, but no matter what I tried, I can't login to t