Can't Login as Root

energiza · 11-26-2004, 05:17 PM

I have SuSE and it's very nice, faster than the RH8 I had before, though it has caused me more problems than RH8.

Remember when you write wrong password it tells you immediately?
That is not the case, login: root, password, goes ahead and returns to login screen:

/var/log/messages
Nov 26 16:51:29 linux kdm: :1[5526]: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service xdm
Nov 26 16:51:30 linux kdm: :1[5526]: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service xdm

See?, the sesion is ended in about 1 second.

Ok, I login as myself not as root. Once in session, I CAN OPEN A ROOT CONSOLE and I can start mysql server, and thins that only root can do, but I can not erase or edit files through Konqueror as I used while in a root session under X.

Any Idea?

Yesterday I had a major problem, where package database was lost. The computer got frozen, I turned it off, waited 30 seconds, and restart. After that, many files lost. I UPDATED packages and I could enter again to Linux. I never had frozen things in old RH8, but it's not as nice and as fast. So I think it's worth get to know better this SuSE thing.

Thanks for the help in fixing the login problem (I know that backing up my recent work and reinstall SuSE will work fine, but it's not as good as to learn what happened).

Regards
Energiza

Brian1 · 11-26-2004, 05:27 PM

Not good to login as root all the time. You should be able to have mySQL autostart. But if I understand you and you are using kdm as your login manager then you need to edit /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc file and allow root to access through kdm. There is two line to edit. If I remember they say something like allow root=false. Change to true.

Brian1

energiza · 11-26-2004, 11:55 PM

Thanks. Yes I understand not to login as root all the time and the autostart of mySQL, but it's just that I can not longer login as root using X. I searched for the file kdmrc but its not there. I searched under /etc/X11 for files with "root" inside but none has the shape of root=true/false. Do you think that's why?, Should I make that file and what's the format?

Thanks

Brian1 · 11-27-2004, 10:57 AM

What login manager are you using?
What KDE version?
What Distro?

Just from your reply did you goto /etc/X11/xdm and see if there was a file called kdmrc? It reads you went to /etc/X11. This setup I am using is KDE 3.3.1.

Might be located in /etc/kde/kdm
Do a search for kdmrc.

Brian1