Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-28 Thread techlists
> rkrusty (Ian Moore) was also the mantainer whene the archive was in tdyc I know, I'm just commenting that he may need some help because it seems he's having a few problems now. I guess that could be because of the ever changing packages in an unstable distribution. Jack Oscar Riveros <[EMA

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread Oscar Riveros
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:37:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Upgraded to woody, now GDM will not accept my root password. I can change > terminals and I can log in as root fine, but GDM will not accept it, but will > allow user login. So, I installed KDM since I log into KDE anyway, but

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread Teunis Peters
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to > > run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' > > and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. > > So who was the idiot genius that thought that one up. Nor

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:28:34AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to > > run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' > > and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. > > So who was the idiot genius that th

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 22:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to > > run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' > > and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. > > So who was the idiot genius that thought that on

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread techlists
> 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to > run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' > and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. So who was the idiot genius that thought that one up. Normally I do login as my user and su when I need to do

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-26 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:37:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Upgraded to woody, now GDM will not accept my root password. I can | change terminals and I can log in as root fine, but GDM will not | accept it, but will allow user login. So, I installed KDM since I | log into KDE anyway, but

Re: kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-25 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 1. Why does GDM not accept the root password, when the console does? You need to specifically enable root logins in gdm. Check out /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf. > 2. Why does KDM not show KDE as a choice? You need to check out the configuration fo

kdm & gdm + woody

2001-10-25 Thread techlists
Upgraded to woody, now GDM will not accept my root password. I can change terminals and I can log in as root fine, but GDM will not accept it, but will allow user login. So, I installed KDM since I log into KDE anyway, but KDM does not show KDE as a choice for my GUI. I had no problem loggin