how to login gnome as root

Jeff Waugh jeff.waugh at canonical.com
Mon Dec 6 17:02:30 UTC 2004


<quote who="loom loom">

> I moving step by step, I have succeeded to create the root account(old
> habbits). However for somereason I can't login to Gnome as root. I have
> tried root,su,sudo,root at ubuntu,superuser,super user... almost everything,
> but I can't login as root. And because of that system doesnt allows me to
> make changes on system, even doesnt allows me to copy files on Gnome DE.
> 
> Would anyone please tell me how to log in as root to gnome?

You should *not* log in to GNOME as root. What do you need to do that would
require this?

- Jeff

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