I know, I know - minus 10 Brownie Points for bringing up an old thread. Just reinstalled Salix after a drive failure and (surprise surprise) ran into the same issue as the OP. "Root Account Disabled By Default". Salix MATE 14.1 (and to answer a previous question, Salix is built off of Slack and uses some of the same repos). That particular version didn't give me the option to use /sdb2 as my /home dir (or else I did something wrong, I was pretty frustrated by this point) so I dropped back to Salix 13.37 and it come up with a graphical log in screen, "can't log into root from this screen". Edit /etc/inittab, change default runlevel from 4 to 3.

If memory serves from the last time this happened, Salix also complains about running X as root. Don't recall how I circumvented that little issue, because I just copied over my root files from another system which is also running Salix.

Salix != Slackware. They may have the same base, but, especially after what is shown in this thread, they are two entirely different things. Us Slackware users can provide some basic Salix help, but for in-depth help, Salix's forums are a much better place to visit for help.

http://forum.salixos.org

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1. This is the Slackware forum. Salix has its own forum.

2. Salix already HAS an active root account.

3. Don't login as root in a graphical environment. Very bad idea.

4. Take some time to learn the system you're using. Try this: http://docs.slackware.com/

Cheers,

Niki

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And rightly so because running X as root is a stupid idea.

[WARNING] Before everyone starts responding. This is a thread from 5 years ago that got resurrected by Sancoeur!

While it is marked solved I would still like to add one more post to the thread. What you needed to do was check the wiki on the Salix website. In the FAQ. listed under R, you would have found How to enable the root user http://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_..._the_root_user I never go to chat rooms as I find the incidence of adolescence is often much greater than on forums. I haven't been to the Salix forum in quite a while but in the past it IIRC people there did not play secrets and in general were just as helpful as those folks you find here.