Where did my root go??? SuSE 9x

Dear visitor, welcome to KDE-Forum.org. If this is your first visit here, please read the Help. It explains in detail how this page works. To use all features of this page, you should consider registering. Please use the registration form, to register here or read more information about the registration process. If you are already registered, please login here.

PLowran

Beginner

Posts: 3

Wednesday, April 13th 2005, 3:45am

Where did my root go??? SuSE 9x

Lord im goion nuts.........
Ok Im not a newbie but still to used to DOS than Linux so please mind me. I updated my Suse 9.1 to KDE 3.4 the other day but I get " Cannot log in as root" Whay is that? In text mode ( because the onboard video card stinks) the installation does not require a logon name just a password for the root. So after the updat I got locked outta my system. But what or why is the reason for not being able to log in as root???

Go to the top of the page

wysota

Trainee

Posts: 65

Location: Warsaw, POLAND

Wednesday, April 13th 2005, 10:20am

RE: Where did my root go??? SuSE 9x

You must have disallowed logging in as root into kde (or the package maintainer did that for you), which is a good thing

Press CTRL+F1, log in as root and add a regular user. You should never use root if you don't have to -- and you certainly don't need root to launch kde

Live and let live - use the search engine.
"Use the docs Luke, use the docs!"

Go to the top of the page

PLowran

Beginner

Posts: 3

Wednesday, April 13th 2005, 2:24pm

Thanks for the hot tip. I know you do not have to log in as root, but I do for some reason, mostly just to install updates or add-ons.

Philip

Go to the top of the page