Ubuntu won't let me log on as root
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From: Martin Gregorie on 20 Jun 2010 16:55 On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:24:05 +0100, Dave Pickles wrote: > Ivor Jones wrote: > >> On 20/06/10 12:24, Martin Gregorie wrote: >>> >>> Does anybody know how to make the current Fedora graphical login >>> screen accept a root login? >>> >>> While I'm on the subject, does anybody know if its possible to revert >>> to the traditional text box entry for the user name rather than using >>> the dumb pick-list? Apart from anything else, the pick list reduces >>> security by telling a miscreant what the user names are: IOW instead >>> of having to guess both username and login, the cracker only needs to >>> guess the password. >> >> I'd be very interested in both of those questions as well. >> >> > On Mandriva running kdm you need to edit kdmrc > (/usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc on my system). Find the line > > AllowRootLogin=false > > and change 'false' to 'true'. I expect Fedora will be the same. > > Further down the same file there are lots of options for disabling the > user name display or showing only a range of UIDs. > Unfortunately, that all seems to be KDE stuff (I have a couple of KDE apps installed such as k3b). There's nothing there that's related to the Gnome login screen. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: Justin C on 20 Jun 2010 17:26 In article <%amTn.55671$Ha1.44125(a)hurricane>, grinch wrote: > I personally delete the sudo program You delete the binary? You don't use the tools supplied for package-management to remove it, and to the cruft installed with it? Seems a very strange, not-very-linux way, to do things. Justin. -- Justin C, by the sea.
From: Dave Pickles on 21 Jun 2010 01:41 Martin Gregorie wrote: > Unfortunately, that all seems to be KDE stuff (I have a couple of KDE > apps installed such as k3b). There's nothing there that's related to the > Gnome login screen. Coincidentally I was battling with gdm (the Gnome login manager) yesterday. It does seem to have far fewer options than kdm, and I believe it relies on PAM to decide who is and is not allowed to log in. In principle there is no reason why kdm could not be used in a Gnome setup, but I'm not familiar enough with Fedora to know how it would handle that. -- Dave
From: Mike Civil on 21 Jun 2010 02:56 In article <hvlv7b$10s$2(a)localhost.localdomain>, Martin Gregorie <martin(a)address-in-sig.invalid> wrote: >Unfortunately, that all seems to be KDE stuff (I have a couple of KDE >apps installed such as k3b). There's nothing there that's related to the >Gnome login screen. Looks like GDM uses PAM :- http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/fedora-10-root-login/
From: F8BOE on 21 Jun 2010 04:42
Dave W wrote: > All the magazines tell me how easy Linux can be for beginners like me, > but I cannot even begin. I want to install Linux on a partition on my > laptop (HP N1412), but the only distribution I can find that satisfies > the two requirements of (1) having my Intel830 screen driver, and (2) > installable from a CD not DVD, is Ubuntu 9.04. > > I can log on as user, but it won't let me log on as root, and won't > let me install any new programs. The machine is not connected to the > internet and will only be used by me, so the less logging in the > better. I can log in as root by booting into rescue mode, but that > goes to command line only. I can then edit any of the millions of > files at will, but can anyone tell me which ones to let me install new > programs? > > Dave W Hello, If Ubuntu is the "the only distro that satisfies" you, - you missed the real distros for beginners - you missed the last distros released - you didn't search enough If you need to login as root under Unix, - you cannot use your distro's configuration tool - your distro have no configuration tool - you have chosen the wrong distro - you are better using winboobs Ubuntu IS for sure NOT a distro for beginners. Distros easy to use for beginners have always a real configuration tool such as the MCC for Mandriva. -- Ciao @+ < Sony VGN-FW54M powered by Mandriva-Linux 2010.0 > |