[SOLVED] Root Login Denial

kingbda222 · 01-29-2010, 02:19 AM

I have a good working installation of RHEL 5.3 on one partition. Recently I installed RHEL 4u5 on another partition. Both use KDE as DT managers. Now I can boot into RHEL 4u5 as a user (and also do su -), but when I attempt root login at the GUI, I get message 'root login not permitted'.

acid_kewpie · 01-29-2010, 04:12 AM

This is, afaik, by design. root should never start up an X session himself, su-ing upon demand is a much safer mechanism.

kingbda222 · 02-01-2010, 12:58 AM

dear friend, thanks for the info. however on another pc i have the same installation, and there's absolutely no problem in root login at kde gui. BTW, ssh or telnet login for root is definitely a security risk and is usually disallowed by default. the issue still remains. i'm sure it is some config entry which is responsible. am still looking for the answer.

DrLove73 · 02-01-2010, 05:54 AM

In "/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc" find "AllowRootLogin=false", row ~229, and change it to true. save and logout, or restart X server/system.

Of course, I have to repeat that this is possible security issue :-)

kingbda222 · 02-19-2010, 03:06 AM

Had to edit the /etc/hosts file. Was actually a trivial thing.