not able to login as root

[Jim Conner]

On Saturday, June 02, 2007 9:58 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
> 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.
I found it.  You need to edit /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc and change:

AllowRootLogin=false
to:
AllowRootLogin=true

Then restart KDM.  If you restart X it will do just that.  You should then be 
allowed to do what you want.

Jim
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