not able to login as root

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On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

Mandriva does use RPMs, Ubuntu does not.  Also, Fedora could be 
equivalently (mis)configured with SELinux to prevent root logins.  Ubuntu 
doesn't allow logins via GDM as root either.

So Ric, whatever are you talking about?

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