sallam Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 greetings everytime the root login small window pops up, I make sure to click the 'keep password' option, as I'm the only one who has access to my home computer. Yet, it always asks me for the password, times and again. how can i really convince it to keep the password and never ask for it again? thanks in advance :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 Are you saying you want to login to KDE or Gnome or whatever as root? Why would you want to do that? There are rarely times you need to be root and that is best done from a terminal. It is just plain bad habits to have root wide open to anyone, whether you are the only one who uses your machine. Good security habits are a pain at times, but so is locking your car, your house, etc. As a good habit don't log into X as root. Probably your display manager is actually being kind to you by not "remembering." Don't mean to sound preachy, but the distiction between a regular user and root is a key to Linux security and it should be appreciated as such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 (edited) No, sallam means opening the control center as a user and getting the root login dialog window. I've always thought that 'remember password' was there as a 'not yet impemented' feature that just didn't work. Edited July 31, 2005 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallam Posted July 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 No, sallam means opening the control center as a user and getting the root login dialog window. I've always thought that 'remember password' was there as a 'not yet impemented' feature that just didn't work. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> thats exactly what i meant. Oh, so I better not tick the option everytime then. If that so, can you please show me how to change my root password? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 open a terminal and run; passwd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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