Root login

[Tez]

Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
> This morning I tried, as I usually do once a month, to log in as root to do 
> the monthly housekeeping, back up all the ~ directories on the network, etc.
>
> Problem: the KDE login manager tells me root logins are not allowed.
>
> How do I unblock this ?
>
> TIA,
>  
> Ron.
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>  
>   
I'm going to skip the whole "why you shouldn't log in as root" part, as
I assume you know all about that, and just tell you how to do it.

You need to edit /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc and change
AllowRootLogin=false
to
AllowRootLogin=true
It'll be around line #256

Tez