Hello
When I want to login as root, starts Yast automaticaly, and I cannot start a normal session. I use SUSE 9.1 Personal.
Can anyone help me change that?
Thanks!

Hi,

Are you sure you need to log in as root? This is generally a very bad idea. Instead log in as a regular user, open a terminal and type:

xhost +local:

then

su -

Thanks for the reply,
I want to start as a root, in order to use K3b(cd burning). If I do that as a user, it says that some programms of K3b (cdrecord....) don't have root priorities. I have changed their priorities but it still has this problem. Any ideas??

Which kernel are you using? I found that e.g. kernel 2.6.7 permits burning as user, whereas 2.6.9 does not.

Maybe a k3b update will fix it.

Otherwise start k3b with 'kdesu k3b' (root)

This may help.
Brent helped me out with this response as I had a similar experience with Yast as Root....
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Thanks for the response. Actually, I've managed to figure out what the problem was.

There is a file in /root (actually in every user's home directory) called .dmrc that should have the following information in it:

[Desktop]
Session=default

In my case, and I suspect yours, it got change to

[Desktop]
Session=Admin

I know what I did to cause it. I clicked on the Administrator button that comes up on the login menu when you switch screens and login another user. This sets the value so that YaST becomes the desktop. This would be fine except that on the SuSE personal edition, they decided to reduce the functionality and make it more difficult to run different desktops, so they removed the button from the login menu which would allow you to switch back to KDE.

Clearly this is an oversight on their part, but it's also so easy to rip the rug out from under your own feet that I really can't believe that this problem isn't fairly widely known. Maybe it is buried somewhere on the SuSE website, but I sure never found it. I just had to figure it out for myself.

Anyway, I thought you might like to know the answer just in case you ever do it to yourself.

Cheers,

Brent
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Just as a precaution to all the new users out there, please do not log in as root. Now this is not just some theort, the first day in a Linux class that I took, one of the things that the instructor emphasized the most was not loggin in as root unless absolutely necessary. For all other root activities, just #su in the console and then do what you need to do there. I know that for the firefox installation it does start a gui, but please, for everything that you can do through console, just do it there. Alright, you all have a nice day now.