not able to login as root

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 11:58 +1000, 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.

That sure sounds past crazy... nut gone crazy. There's always ubuntu or
Fedora 7. You're welcome to join us in the rpm world. :) Ric

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