On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:18:58PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: > > I just now installed Woody and did a simple installation using only tasksel. > So Gnome is the display manager. However, it does not allow me to login as > root. I need to install OpenOffice and to do that I have to login as root > but not from the console. > > How can I get past this problem? >
I suggest that you install sudo and set yourself up in /etc/sudoers (using visudo). Then you can run commands as root without logging in as root. You could also just su to root in a window but then there are X display authorization issues you will have to work out. -- Mark
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