IIRC this is a feature of gdm and kdm: "you can't log in as root". $ grep -i rootlogin /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc AllowRootLogin=false -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20060515/0741c2ce/attachment.html>