not able to login as root

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 14:00:09 +1000
Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> I have a copy that I installed last week of Mandriva 2007 PowerPack+.
> I want to login and do some alterations in root. so I cut the auto login out 
> and rebooted only when I put in root as login and root password it told
> me that there wer no root login available ?????????????????????
> 
> Is it now impossible or can I work around this, looks like I might have to go
> to another Distro if not.
> 

Not familiar with Mandriva but I know there are a few distros 
that you need to go to the gui for user management and either 
check/uncheck a box to allow the user root to login. You might 
also have to add root to a desktop or some other group.

Ronnie