Unable to login as root

[Roy Smith]

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 root account has been disabled in Ubuntu.  Instead you can use sudo
to temporarily give you root access.  For more information about this
see this page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

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Roy Smith
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jakalope
Registered Linux User #488144
Registered Ubuntu User #26841