On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:46:30 -0500, Michael Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seems a silly question, but... > Just installed Gnome & GDM on my son's computer along with a lot of the > Debian-junior packages. Now I find that I cannot login as root - I always get > the message "The system administrator is not allowed to login from this > screen" I can do some system admin stuff from an xterm if I su root, but how > do I actually do a root login and use Gnome as root so I can configure it? A while back, the gtk and GNOME folks stated that due to the complex nature of a GUI architechture, that they couldn't guarantee that running Gtk programs as root wouldn't cause problems, and perhaps present security holes. Sometime after that GDM got a configuration option to disallow root logins. This feature is turned on by default. You can disable it in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf by setting "AllowRoot=true", under the [security] section. You can also run GUI programs via an xterm after an "su", by using xauth. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
