not able to login as root

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Keith Antoine wrote:
> Jim Conner wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> AFAIK you are talking KDE login, whilest I am talking login to linux
> through a kde desktop which is telling me
> that this operation is not "ALLOWED": never come across this before.
> Also if I sudo in via console and try to
> go to /var/messages I am still locked out without any relevant
> privilages, this looks like a windows setup for newbies.
> I eventually had Mandriva last night, after enterring login come up with
> just a black screen, no kde at all.
> Got frustrated and sent Mandriva to the black hole and reset up with
> openSuse: guess what I got errors on software
> install, told it to ignore them, so it the just cancelled the install.
> Has linux been got at by Ric or something????????????
> All I want is an easy and no errors install like they used to be.

As much as you (and others) may not like to hear this, I typically run 
into nothing but problems with most distros (although not quite as bad as 
your Mandriva fiasco), other than RH/Fedora.  You might want to give 
Fedora 7 a try if you're still looking for an easy distro.

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