Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

From: Rich Rudnick (rrudnick_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 11/29/03

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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:36:46 -0800

    On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:04:18 -0800, Scarletdown wrote:

    > Situation Update...

    >
    > Now, after the install was done, and without rebooting; I logged in and
    > ran gdm. I was rather disappointed that there is no way to log in via gdm
    > as root (I really do prefer to do that at this time rather than log in as
    > a regular user and then su to root, since there seems to be no way to work

    On the gdm menu bar, there's system>configure. Enter the root password,
    and you can allow root to log in under the security tab. 

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