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From: Glenn Enright <elinar@×××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 06:53:04
Message-Id: 200508251918.06811.elinar@ihug.co.nz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Root login, KDE-3.4 by Ted Ozolins
1 On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:34, Ted Ozolins wrote:
2 > Just completed an "emerge -uvD world" on all my systems here. The update
3 > went extremely smooth, many thanks to the Gentoo developers and package
4 > maintainer. Now root is not permitted to login to KDE, which is just
5 > fine by me except for login into my lab-rat. My test machine is placed
6 > on the net only as a user and when I need to upgrade, the rest of the
7 > time it is not on the net. I use the lab-rat to test new
8 > hardware/software and its convenient to be logged in as root. How do I
9 > enable root login in kdm?
10 >
11 > TIA
12 >
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14 > Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
15 > Westbank, B. C
16
17 do you mean you cant use the root login name or that there is no icon for root
18 in kdm? you should be able to type root in the username box and passswd as
19 per normal. Why you would really want to escapes me right now tho, cause all
20 the important stuff can be done with control center or konsole using su. just
21 my 2c.
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24 Hildebrant's Principle:
25 If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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