not able to login as root

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, 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.

Keith, I don't understand your claims that you cannot do all that you want 
with su.  What specifically can't you do?  root is root.

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