Mark said: Subject: RE: gdm, log in as root?
understand that sudo or fakeroot would be an even better solution, as sudo use is logged as security concerns. Dave : I know that Mark. It more annoys me not having the ability there. Even if I had it there i'd very rarely log on as root, but use fakeroot. That's the common sense thing to do. Sometimes though...since updating to kde 3.0.3 I can't su to fakeroot and start applications...I get an Xlib error message : can't send to server, no permissions. Or something similar to that. I did a bit of research to that the other nite, but didn't find much. Was only a brief search. I got the suspicion (after todays thread on GDM) that I might need to reconfigure kdm to allow fake root. I'll pursue that path later. In the meantime i've been lazy, and logging out and going in as root to perform system maintenance etc. Upgrading to gnome2 set esd as the default sound daemon (even when logging onto kde) rather than oss. I haven't sat down and investigated yet how to change it back. I had issues on base install of woody getting audio to play when logged on as normal user. That fixed itself when i got kde 3 running, but gnome 2 just stuffed that all up by setting esd as default. And yes I added myself to audio group, did chmod u+x on /dev/audio, /dev/cdrom, /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp ....I had a play with gnome2 control panels etc but they are very unintuitive I find. I presume resetting default sound daemon back to oss will fix things and return them to normal in kde. *fingers crossed*. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
