Unable to login as root

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Mon May 11 20:56:02 UTC 2009


On Mon, 11 May 2009, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:

>
> The way Ubuntu has been packaged requires a disabled root account. sudo
> -i is the recommended way to get yourself a root shell environment. sudo
> bash ain't recommended.
>
> There is no provision for a root gui session. You can however run
> programs with sudo.

You can, however, run GUI apps with gksu.

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