Unable to login as root

[Corwin]

Roy Smith wrote:
> dheeraj bansal wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am a new-bie to linux. Recently I had installed Ubuntu 8.10 and since
>> then I am not able to login as root in GUI, although I can switch to
>> super user by sudo command but is there any way to login in GUI at the
>> time of login by root. Any help will be highly appreciated.
>>     
>
> The root account has been disabled in Ubuntu.  Instead you can use sudo
> to temporarily give you root access.  For more information about this
> see this page:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
>
>   

I thought that all you have to do is   sudo su
to gain root access.