photoworks Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 hello, i can only log as a simple user on my linux mandriva 2007. every time i try to log in as root, it says root login is not allowed. any tips on what i can do. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Using the search feature and searching for "login as root" revealed an entire thread dedicated to this issue: here. Remember: search first, ask later ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 You might also read this: http://forum.club.mandriva.com/viewtopic.p...8a3d34cb301b059 Google no doubt will also pull up hundreds of posts giving reasons not to do root logins. Never log in as root. Risky and totally uneccessary. Learn to use Linux correctly and you won't be sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 31, 2006 Report Share Posted October 31, 2006 You can even run any graphical application (lets say "foo") as root anytime: kdesu foo Most of the times this is not necessary though, and an odd decision, security-wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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