Accessibility with System Admin Tools

[Willie Walker]

> I seem to remember from a posting back during last summer that it was
> proposed that work should be done on Ubuntu's Admin tools to increase their
> accessibility - has this started or been done?

The work to make this happen is on going for GNOME 2.18 and requires
modification to several components.  In the meantime, one way around
this issue is to enable the root account, and to allow the root user to
login to gnome. This can be accomplished as follows: 

1) Set a password on the root account:

   sudo passwd root

2) Next, edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom and add the following line 
   under the [security] section: 

   AllowRoot=true 

Reboot your system. Now, log in as root via a text console, and run orca
--setup.  You're all done.  When you want to administer your system
using GUI administration tools, you can now login to gnome as root and
run orca.

For GNOME 2.18, I hope the situation will be much better.

Hope this helps,

Will