[newbie] Cannot login as root (not a passwd issue)

From: Fernando Cacciola (fernando_cacciola_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/09/05

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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:40:50 +0200

    Hi people,

    I'm new to debian (knoppix 3.8.1 on HDD) and to linux in general.
    I installed it on HD without troubles (well, only after I realized that
    my dev/hda1 was mounted from startup becasue I have too little RAM and a
    swapfile was being automatically created, so I had to boot at runlevel 3
    to skip KDE)
    So far everything works like a charm, except for one thing, the system
    is configured to disallow root login...
    I know that suing is inherently more secure but for some tasks I rather
    login straight as root.
    I modified the file apt.d/login (or something like that), commenting out
    the entry whose remark said it prevented root logins, but no luck.
    Also, I'm sure I got to "sudo" on a couple of occasions, but now I get
    an error that I'm not on the suders list (or so)...

    Any ideas?

    P.S: The bootlog indicates a number of varying failures which may or
    maynot be important.. the system seems to work well AFAICT but I haven't
    yet tried, say, printing, etc... should I post to log here to let you
    folks analyze it, or should I just ingore it until I can make any sense
    out of it?

    P.S.: To what debian does knoopix 3.8.1 installed on hd corresponds to?

    TIA

    Fernando Cacciola 

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