Thus spake Paul Johnson: > > 3. If I'm in Gnome, I do the same and I get a 'bad password' dialog box. > 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.
It doesn't appear that he was actually logging into X as root. He described getting a box asking for the root password when going into some graphical configuration programs in KDE/Gnome... and Gnome wasn't accepting his password. To the poster, It would appear to be some sort of problem specific to Gnome. No, Gnome does not have its "own" password. The root password is the root password... there must be some sort of other problem causing it. Try looking at the .gnome-errors file in your home directory, to see if there's anything in there which might hint at the problem. -- Nathan Poznick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I already have too much problem with people thinking the efficiency of a perl construct is related to its length. On the other hand, I'm perfectly capable of changing my mind next week... :-) -- Larry Wall
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