how to login gnome as root

[david]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:50 +0200, loom loom wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I moving step by step, I have succeeded to create the root account(old 
> habbits). However for somereason I can't login to Gnome as root. I have 
> tried root,su,sudo,root at ubuntu,superuser,super user... almost everything, 
> but I can't login as root. And because of that system doesnt allows me to 
> make changes on system, even doesnt allows me to copy files on Gnome DE.
> 
> Would anyone please tell me how to log in as root to gnome?
> 
> Thanks,

Login as user then, in a terminal,

sudo passwd root

enter your user password then enter a new superuser password twice
once you have done this you can su to root or su - to root.

Hope this helps.

David