> '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 root stuff. BUT, I still find it usefull to log into root under a GUI every now and then. I don't think it should be upto Gnome to not allow me this. Guy's get a clue...get a consensus before you add something that affects everyone!
Tech dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > 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 KDM does not show KDE as a choice for my > | GUI. I had no problem logging into KDE using GDM under potato. > | > | What's the deal? > | > | 1. Why does GDM not accept the root password, when the console does? > > '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. > > | 2. Why does KDM not show KDE as a choice? > > No idea. > > | 3. Why does it seem that since Ian Moore has become part of > | debian/woody, that KDE has had alot of bugs? He seemed to be better > | off when we hooked upto tdyc. > > I only used KDE on windows (cygwin/xfree). I decided on GNOME quite a > while back, and I like it. > > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
