Does anyone know how to change the security root login in Mandriva 2008 to login to a GUI interface I used to be able to login as root in earlier versions of Mandriva and now root access is not allowed. Normally I login as SU at the command line but I accidently created a directory with a space between two words and can't remove it on the command line. As a user if I create a file with a space between words in a GUI interface I can remove it. Hope someone can help me I have looked at all the boot and access.conf files to allow access with no success.

login as normal user

open a shell

gives you a file manager in web browser mode....change the address bar to /(pathway to offending dir or file) and delete it

Try putting it in quotes: rmdir "two words"

Thanks I will try that

Thanks putting it in quotes worked and I created another file and tried opening a console and logged in as SU and entered konqueror and that worked to. Thanks for the help.

You can also use tab completion and linux will fill in the space with a \

Hi, Mandriva have tightened security by not allowing root login by default.

But you can change it, A quick search of these pages should give you the directions (It's been discussed before) to do so if required.

Cheers, Glenn

Thanks I will read those posts.