On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 17:51, andrew may wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 10:29:36PM -0500, Bert Knabe wrote: > > After much wailing and nashing of teeth, I have gotten Linux installed and > > Xwindows almost working. Installing Linux was the easy part. Now when I boot > > Linux, it boots into a Debian graphic login, but it won't let me login. > > Whether I log in as me or as root, it says the password is incorrect. I know > > the passwords are correct, they are the same wones I used from the command > > I think gdm and the others don't allow root login's by default. Check in > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf add or change AllowRoot=true
Logging in as root into X isn't a good idea in general, there are sudo, su & friends for administrative tasks. And he tried as normal user so that can't be the only problem anyhow. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
