root password

[Billie Walsh]

On 07/19/2008 Henri Girard wrote:
>  This question is always of actuallity !
>  If someone wants password 's root I think it's better to tell him and
>  tell him the danger but that's all !
>  suse can yet start as root :)
>  Any way for ubu like it's the way :)
>  if you got gdm kdm
>  edit in /etc/kdm or gdm .conf at about line 230 (about )
>  AllowRootLogin=false change it to true
>  save and run kdm/gdm again
> 
>  /etc/init.d/kdm restart or gdm
>  and then you can use root as loging
>  thanks again to those who have told me on internet :)

Coming from SuSE I found not having a "root" login kind of strange. 
After a year with Kubuntu it seems strange to have to have "root" when I 
boot into SuSE. I guess it's whatever your used to. Personally I don't 
find having a "root" login to be necesary. YMMV

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