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dieselbenz · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 239 Location: Jefferson IA

(Guess that about says it all.)

Don
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moron · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 196 Location: NC - USA

diesel,
Type nogui at grub screen > enter
Enter root & password at the resulting prompt
Type startx > enter
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eriefisher · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject:

You shouldn't need to login as root. Everything can be done with su or sux.
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dieselbenz · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 239 Location: Jefferson IA

rayburn · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 19 Location: East Coast of Wales

dieselbenz

I agree with you 100%, as long as you are aware of the implications of logging in as root, it is fine and sometimes necessary to avoid constant su logins.

After all, surely Linux is about choice, and if you choose to run as root, that's ok by me!

dieselbenz · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 239 Location: Jefferson IA

anticapitalista · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:15 am Post subject:

Hey, dieselbenz, antiX does give the option to login as root (as moron explained) so it is not assuming the user is stoopid.

Personally, I prefer to login as user, open a terminal, su(x) to root and keep that terminal open if I have lots to do as admin user, using rox for drag and drop.
Once finished, close the terminal, no need to logout/login again.

Swings and roundabouts I suppose.
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thinkpada21 · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 39

I haven't tried it recently, but I think you can switch consoles to a non-graphical one, then log in as root and do a startx. This saves having to reboot. Another possibility is to Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to exit X, then log in.

dieselbenz · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 239 Location: Jefferson IA

mariel77 · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 95

You can login as root in mepis; I did it just a couple of weeks ago. I "lost" an external usb hard drive; the permissions got all messed up. If I had been smart though, I could have found the drive and fixed the permissions without a root login. Smile

I think the problem logging into antiX as root is with the slim login manager; at least that's my understanding.

dieselbenz · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 239 Location: Jefferson IA

mariel77 · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 95

anticapitalista · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject:

Mariel is right Don. MEPIS does give you the option to login as root at the KDE login screen, just like PCLOS.
Debian and others that use kde login have it disabled, but not MEPIS.

Because antiX uses slim login manager, the only way to allow root login from boot was to disable slim at the grub menu. ie the nogui cheatcode.
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dieselbenz · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 239 Location: Jefferson IA

masinick · Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 76

The issue of root logins really becomes a moot issue most of the time. If you are really astute, you can change most things provided by a distro. An astute user/administrator can modify a system any way they choose.

I remember an old Lindows.com system that had ONLY root user, but pretty decent protections on root. People howled about root user access. Well, that was REALLY EASY to change - create user accounts, then change group access to programs and objects to allow ordinary user access.

The reverse may seem complicated, but it is possible as well. However, depending on how deeply a feature is engineered into a system or distribution, it may take more effort than it is worth. For experimentation's sake, I have fiddled and faddled with such things before. As far as which approach to take, it matters little to me. These days I use most systems for Email and browsing at least 50% of the time, but frequently 75% or more of the time. Therefore I have less time to twiddle. That is where SimplyMEPIS and Arch come in extra handy - they are good and ready to go, but I feel that they are extensible. I have already taken one antiX system and turned it into a Sid hybrid with sidux tools. Still works like good old antiX - fast, still pretty stable, quick to start, easy to maintain, yet flexible.

That's the way (uh huh uh huh) I like it! Smile