On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 18:09 +0100, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 12/14/2012 12:05 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On a 12.1 system, I cannot log in as root via KDM/XDM.
Nobody said this before, so I'll do it (for novice readers):
Logging in as root via KDM/XDM is a security risk. Many programs which are run during that which may or may not be designed to be run as root.
So you 99.999% simply won't even want to even think about that you want to do such a thing.
If you need root privileges in a GUI session, e.g. for Yast2, then login as a normal user, then "su root -" in a terminal and then start that program.
In your case, it seems overkill to change the login manager's settings in order to login as root, just in order to create a new user account (even if it is the first one). Go to tty1 by pressing CTRL-ALT-F1, and login as root there; yast2 has a nice curses-based mode there.
So perhaps the openSUSE install should not allow one to do an install without creating a non-root user. We do not use the root GUI login very often. I am sure I could convince the users that they do not need to bother with it. But if they forget to make a non-root user during install additional recovery steps are needed just to be able to log in via the GUI.
Have a nice day, Berny
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