not able to login as root

[C M Reinehr]

On Saturday 02 June 2007 23:28, Jim Conner wrote:
> 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

Are we talking about logging into KDE, a virtual console, or an x-terminal? 
Your advice is correct for KDE, but Keith has said nothing about KDE in his 
postings.

cmr
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