[QCLUG] I'm Getting Back On The Horse

[Mark Riedesel]

Ohhhhhh.. You're logging into Gnome (or KDE) as root..There's a reason
that's disabled by default. Is there a reason you're doing that?
There's usually a better way to accomplish whatever it is you're doing
without logging into an entire X session as root.

Mark

On Feb 18, 2008 5:47 AM, Robert Jones <robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
>
>  Good Morning and Thank You
>
>  Mark Riedesel wrote:
>  I've gotten used to using sudo so I don't bother setting a password
> for the root user, or just `sudo su` to switch to root. But if you
> want the root account to have a password, you can set one for root
> using:sudo passwd root
>
>  Do you mean that I can use the command "sudo su" and I will be logged in at
> the "root" user?  If so, that is all I really want to be able to do.  I
> thought I would have to actually go through the log in screen to get there.
> I would have to log out and then log in as root.
>  Does Ubuntu have some weird graphical app for setting the root password?
>  In Ubuntu I would go to  System > Preferences > Control Center > Login
> Window > Security and set "Allow Local System Administrator Login".  Then
> make sure the "Permissions" were set to "Allow Login if group write ..." was
> set.  After that I went to a terminal and used "sudo passwd root".  Then I
> could log in a "root" from the log in window.  If I can just use "sudo su"
> and accomplish the same thing I wouldn't have to load Ubuntu.
>
>  Thanks again.
>  Bob Jones
>