how to log in as root on desktop

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 04:22:12 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Pastor JW
<pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 1:56:07 am Tapas Mishra wrote:
>>
>> sudo passwd root
>
> Oh dear!  That was not a very nice thing to do to a new user.  It ruins his
> system.

Let's not exaggerate!

It doesn't ruin anything. All other nix versions have root enabled
except for OS X and they work perfectly well.

It simply enables root, which can be re-disabled with "passwd -l root".




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