Unable to login as root

[Max E.K]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 17:22 +0530, dheeraj bansal wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am a new-bie to linux. Recently I had installed Ubuntu 8.10 and
> since then I am not able to login as root in GUI, although I can
> switch to super user by sudo command but is there any way to login in
> GUI at the time of login by root. Any help will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dheeraj  Bansal

Why would you want to do something like that, this was put for a purpose
and is generally not advisable to allow root login to the GUI.

But if you insist there are ways of achieving this.

system > administration > Login window > security > allow local
administrators login.
Set the minimum UID to 0..

BUT AGAIN ITS NOT ADVISABLE TO DO THIS, ANY MISTAKES ON YOUR FAULT WITH
RESULT INTO DISASTER.

and i still keep wondering why would you want to do this, its more of a
M$ windows behavior which encourages less secure working environment.


Cheers Max.
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