Unable to login as root

Mon May 11 13:20:18 UTC 2009

On 05/11/2009 03:03 PM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> 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
>      Yes you can login as root, if you give root a password. It is not a
> good idea to login as root.

Said like that, I disagree.
People knowing what he does may use root privileges to fo what he want.
The problem are newbies, used to be permanent administrator under Windows.
I let you guess what I mean but being so radical about root usage is not 
something I agree with :-)

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