Robert Storey wrote:
> I know that most Debian users disdain the idea of ever logging in as root,
No, you misunderstand. It is fine to log in as root. Especially on
the console. It is just frowned upon to run a large collection of
unaudited programs such as KDE/Gnome as root. Does anyone know
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:27:06PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote:
| On Friday 22 August 2003 10:28 pm, Robert Storey wrote:
| >I know that most Debian users disdain the idea of ever logging in as root,
Well, there is a reason for that. (see my first message in this
thread)
| > but there are a few ti
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 02:01:41AM -0700, Joris Huizer wrote:
> As root, run gdmconfig.
> Click the tab "Login behavior" and check "Show the
> 'system' menu (for reboot shutdown etc)"
This is strongly discouraged, however. You should be using su -m
--- Victory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
> try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop
> Manager
> and it said " The system administrator is not
> allowed to login form this
> screen"
> How to login with root account to run some utility
> fro
Robert Storey wrote:
> [...]
> I know that most Debian users disdain the idea of ever logging in as
> root, but there are a few times when I've found it useful (I'll
> probably get flamed to a crisp for saying that). The best way I know
> of to log in as root is to kill gdm and log in using text mo
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 01:26:46AM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote:
> Under gdmsetup, you can allow root logins and remote root logins through
> GDM via the Security tab.
No! Do *NOT* do this! Log in as a normal user, open your favorite
terminal, and ty
Under gdmsetup, you can allow root logins and remote root logins through
GDM via the Security tab.
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 23:27, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> On Friday 22 August 2003 10:28 pm, Robert Storey wrote:
> >> I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
> >> try to login as root and passwd at t
On Friday 22 August 2003 10:28 pm, Robert Storey wrote:
>> I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
>> try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop Manager
>> and it said " The system administrator is not allowed to login form
>> this screen"
>> How to login with root account to run s
> I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
> try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop Manager
> and it said " The system administrator is not allowed to login form
> this screen"
> How to login with root account to run some utility from graphic mode
> ???
I know that most Debian
charlie derr wrote:
It's probably not a full and complete answer to your question, but I
find what works for me is to log in to the graphical user environment of
your choice as a regular user and then execute "su" in one of the
terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, whatever...) inside the g
It's probably not a full and complete answer to your question, but I
find what works for me is to log in to the graphical user environment of
your choice as a regular user and then execute "su" in one of the
terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, whatever...) inside the gui
(not "su -"). I
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:35:56 -0400,
"Victory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
> try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop Manager
> and it said " The system administrator is not allowed to login form
> this scr
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:35:56PM -0400, Victory wrote:
| I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
| try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop Manager
| and it said " The system administrator is not allowed to login form this
| screen"
That's right.
| How to login with root acco
I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop Manager
and it said " The system administrator is not allowed to login form this
screen"
How to login with root account to run some utility from graphic mode ???
Regards,
Victor,
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