-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0600, Brian Gonzales wrote: > 1. If I 'su' at a command line, my root password works fine. > 2. If I'm using KDE, I click on a Command Center icon, it prompts for a > root password, it works fine. > 3. If I'm in Gnome, I do the same and I get a 'bad password' dialog box.
This has been answered dozen times in the archives, please look before leaping. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Gnome is doing the right thing. Don't log in as root. Especially don't log in as root in X, KDE or Gnome. Open a terminal emulator and use su -m to get root in X. This is safer. - -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+4rT+J5vLSqVpK2kRAkHtAJ0SCknlNg4A4ElM18vocnWvUUOyAgCePsTB GgvXaznNgBBwSfxRfw4VeQQ= =KmbR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
