cannot login as root on suse 10

syahrulf · 03-31-2009, 02:49 AM

Dear all,

i have a problem, i cannot login as root on my susebox, which i can done it before,this happen just like that with no particular reason.when i typed user name as root and fill the password on KDE, it just erase the password field without success login, there are several file which i share with winbox using smb and the previledges only can open with root account, pls help me and sorry for my bad english.

thanks a million..

syahrul

TB0ne · 03-31-2009, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by syahrulf

Dear all,

i have a problem, i cannot login as root on my susebox, which i can done it before,this happen just like that with no particular reason.when i typed user name as root and fill the password on KDE, it just erase the password field without success login, there are several file which i share with winbox using smb and the previledges only can open with root account, pls help me and sorry for my bad english.

thanks a million..

syahrul

You're entering the wrong password....it's been changed. Either check your caps-lock key, or boot the box into single-user mode, and change the password from there, then reboot normally.

syahrulf · 03-31-2009, 11:23 PM

thanks TBone i will try give it a try, but are there any other possibilities beside that?, because i try to login this morning, i login as a regular account use KDE then i open the terminal then i typed su and the password on the shell, it works!!, but why when i tried to login as a root on KDE the screen become blank and come back to login page...

win32sux · 03-31-2009, 11:37 PM

Maybe KDE is protecting you from yourself? That is, considering that logging in as root is a terrible idea.

syahrulf · 04-01-2009, 03:26 AM

whaa...how is that possibly happen ?? and what about my share file which only had root as a user.....

win32sux · 04-01-2009, 03:33 AM

Well, I don't use KDE, but the documentation implies that not all distros allow KDE to be used as root. That is, at least out of the box. I'm guessing there's an option in the KDE configuration utility where you can bypass that restriction, assuming you wish to ignore all the warnings about how running a desktop environment as root is one of the worst things you can do to a GNU/Linux box.

TB0ne · 04-01-2009, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by syahrulf

whaa...how is that possibly happen ?? and what about my share file which only had root as a user.....

I agree with win32sux....apparently, someone has disabled root login via GUI, since your password works from an su. That's easily done, both for KDE and Gnome.

And it IS a horrible idea to log in as root via GUI.

gamax92 · 04-04-2009, 06:21 PM

I learned this in Knoppix and it works with Fedora and Ubuntu

If you have Gnome continue, else skip to Console.

In Gnome, On the menu Apps or Something close to that goto System Utitilty and click Terminal
type: su
enter in the password for root

boom, your there as root.
if it fails to the login screen again...

Console:
Use Ctrl+Alt+F4 and login as root

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