Unable to login as root

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

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.
>   


The way Ubuntu has been packaged requires a disabled root account. sudo 
-i is the recommended way to get yourself a root shell environment. sudo 
bash ain't recommended.

There is no provision for a root gui session. You can however run 
programs with sudo.