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cannot login as root


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I second it, I wrote a newbie post on logging in as root, on here - quite a funny read but hopefully easy to understand why not to do it :P

 

Just use "su" when you need root privileges.

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Nor should you be able to.

 

Log on as your normal user, open a term, type su, then root password. Anything you do from that terminal is now done as root. And no you don't have to do it all on a cmd line, if you start an X application from that window it will be run as root.

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