<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Please note that: 1) If you need to run graphical applications with root privileges, there is 'gksudo' for that [1] 2) It is highly discouraged to login graphically as root, and if you can't do something without, it's a bug in the software 3) Enabling the root account will "void your warranty", eg. your system will be officially unsupported after doing it To read more about root/sudo in Ubuntu, refer to the Ubuntu wiki RootSudo page [2]. Also: In the future, please refrain from posting questions or advice on how to enable the root account to this mailing list. Yt, Pasi [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Graphical_sudo">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Graphical_sudo</a> [2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo</a> On 01/01/2013 03:12 PM, Joshua O'Leary wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:b25abf65-45c9-4125-b932-e5cc0e7d0dfd@email.android.com" type="cite">You should never login to X as root, you are supposed to use sudo to elevate to superuser. If you really need root, you can enable the root account with sudo usermod -U root And can be locked again with sudo usermod -L root Joshua <div class="gmail_quote"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Garry@garryricketsonartworks.org">Garry@garryricketsonartworks.org</a> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">How can I login as root, xubuntu never allows it ? >From Garry <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.garryricketsonartworks.org">http://www.garryricketsonartworks.org</a> End of xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 72, Issue 1 ******************************************** </pre> </blockquote> </div> -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://open.knome.fi/">http://open.knome.fi/</a> Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shimmerproject.org/">http://shimmerproject.org/</a> Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xubuntu.org/">http://xubuntu.org/</a></pre> </body> </html>