On 28 Jan 2005 16:04:47 -0000, 51zb58u02@sneakemail.com <51zb58u02@sneakemail.com> wrote:
Greetings from a newbie.
Whenever I login as root, YaST automatically runs. When I quit YaST, it automatically logs out as root. It used to not do this, but started about a month ago.
I'm running Suse Personal 9.1 with KDE.
On the advice of Suse Tech support, I've tried: editing /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to make sure that 'AllowRootLogin=true'
I've made sure that DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
Anyone have any ideas?
If I remember correctly I had this problem too for a while and I just assumed that this was a security thing with Suse not allowing me to log in as root and work like a regular user but when playing with the login menu I noticed this-> Menu->Session Type->admin (this was selected) I changed it to "default" and I was able to log in again as regular root user. but from my few months of experience I realized that allowing me to log in to YaST only as root was a good thing and using "su" and "kdesu" to perform administrative tasks. Let me know if this works. If it doesn't then I will recheck what I had done (but I currently do not have access to that machine) Ganesh