I did that like this: usermod -G admin root System --> Administration --> Login Window --> Security --> (tick) Allow local system adminisrator login Alt+Ctrl+BackSpace <div> On 6/7/06, <a href="mailto:ubuntu@rio.vg">ubuntu@rio.vg</a> <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@rio.vg">ubuntu@rio.vg</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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... -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- ******************************************************** Yours Sincerely, Mehdi Hassanpour ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /* Of one Essence is the human race, Thusly has Creation put the Base; One Limb impacted is sufficient, For all Others to feel the Mace. ~Saadi (persian poet) -1258 */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <a href="http://ImPersian.com">http://ImPersian.com </a> | <a href="http://Hezardastan.org">http://Hezardastan.org</a> ********************************************************