On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:43 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > MPR wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Darac Marjal wrote: > >>> > >>> Log in as root? > >> > >> Effectively that's what I want. > >> BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< > > > > Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID and GID for your login to 0 (which > > effectively makes you root). Then "chown -R root:root /home/username" > > to your home directory. Now you can log in with your username but you > > will be root. > > > > That seems to have the effect I was looking for. I modified > some one else advice (suggestion main background color be > bright re) and chose a user name which conveys use caution > and st the top and bottom of screen red - whole screen being > red would not work well for me.
That's more strange than simply enable login for root. /home for root should be /root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1353708418.11101.39.camel@q
