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I've set up Ubuntu Breezy with a root account (using expert install).
BUT
Ubuntu won't let me login as root from the GUI login screen. Instructions say to change that from the System menu. But i can't do that unless I'm root. I also don't seem to be able to sudo anything. Neither my root password nor my current password works in response to a sudo command (when i use the root pwd, i'm told it's bad; when i use my user account, it's accepted, but nothing happens). I know the root password is good, since I can open another terminal sesssion as root.
you should never be able to log into x as root, and this is often explicitly disabled by distro's. if you can log in as root on a normal console login, your account will be fine
like i said, that's a realy reaaly really bad thing to do... there is no justifiation for running X as root. if you want to be root, use su under a normal login. sudo acces needs to be configured via /etc/sudoers
This is my biggest bitch with Ubuntu - in fact it was a major reason I dropped it and went to Mepis for my "general users" machines. Then of course the KDE upgrade caused the same to happen on Mepis.
When I need to get onto a machine to configure it I use root - simple as that. Dicking around in Cups manager for (hardware) router attached printers and editting config files I do as root.
My choice.
solstice123, have a look for a kde file kdmrc - maybe /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kde/kdmrc;
change the AllowRootLogin=false to true.
I don't understand how allowing root login from gmd is insecure....
anyuser with the sudo ability is just as bad as allowing root login....
Code:
sudo passwd root
su -
nautilus
only thing the user needs is their own login password for sudo. the next two commands subsitute the current user for root in the terminal with root's full enviornment, then nautilus starts the file browser. now they have fullaccess to everything. I'm a linux noob and figured this one out!! So unless you fix that sudo problem (which ubuntu has by default) allowing root login from gdm makes no difference in my book. unless their is something you can do in gdm that you can't in as a normal user but you could just log off anyways and get to the gdm.
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