not able to login as root

[C M Reinehr]

On Monday 04 June 2007 17:05, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Well, that said, then I have to vote for my favorite, Debian! ;-)

But, anyway, a little Googling turned up that this might be as simple as 
setting a root password. Keith, have you tried Bill's suggestion of `sudo 
passwd root`? Another suggestion from the the Googling was reboot your PC 
into single-user and then run `passwd root`. One respondant complained that 
the root password that was entered during the install was "changed" and not 
effective later. Maybe there's some kind of bug during the Mandriva install.

Cheers!

cmr
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