SOLVED: root has less menus

[Mehdi Hassanpour]

I did that like this:

usermod -G admin root
System --> Administration --> Login Window --> Security --> (tick) Allow
local system adminisrator login
Alt+Ctrl+BackSpace

On 6/7/06, ubuntu at rio.vg <ubuntu at rio.vg> wrote:
>
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > Mehdi Hassanpour wrote:
> >> I've enabled root user for login to Gnome but why root has less menus
> >> than the admin user ?
> >
> > Why do you need to login to Gnome as root? Don't.
> >
>
> I've found it useful to do so on occasion.  I have my /home partition as
> an encrypted loopfs.  Every now and then I like to back it up, which
> means unmounting/unlooping, which means I need to login without /home.
> It's much easier to simply login as root to X than go through the hassle
> of changing the runlevel and rebooting...
>
> Then there was my earlier problem where the clock was an hour and a half
> off and sudo ceased to function until I either waited a couple of hours
> or reboot the system...
>
> There are most definitely valid reasons for taking the more tradition
> root user method...
>
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