not able to login as root

[Keith Antoine]

Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Tried evrything I know to login as root only to be told "root login is 
not allowed" and thats it.
sSU is fine but cannot do all I want with this.

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