Unable to login as root

[Emil Payne]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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
>>
>>   
>>     
>     Yes you can login as root, if you give root a password. It is not a 
> good idea to login as root. You can ruin your system very easy. That is 
> why Ubuntu uses sudo.
>
>     I suggest you do not login as root.
>
>
> Karl
>
>
>   

Personally, I set myself up with three accounts:

*Root*, which I hardly ever use, except on a new setup where I have to 
do a lot of configuring or some other major work.

My main account under my first *name*, set as an administrator.  I have 
to either use SUDO all the time, or get prompted for a password.  But it 
cautions me to double think about what I am doing.

My generic user account, usually with a *nickname*.  This is the one 
with no access at all.  I use it to make sure that other users are able 
to do things correctly.  Such as when I install a program, I want to 
make sure that the normal user has access to it, such as write 
permissions.  So this is also basically a test account.

So I would have accounts such as ROOT, EMIL, and SMORK.

Also, with multiple terminals, I can set up root on tty7, emil on tty8 
and smork on tty9 and go back and forth easily while getting things set 
up and testing.  One of the things I like most about Linux!

Emil

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