Lock screen does not work for root in gnome
Xose Vazquez Perez
xose at wanadoo.es
Tue Oct 19 15:56:31 UTC 2004
Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> I had a very good reason to login as root some days ago. In gui.
>
> The LDAP system collapsed (or, more consicely, it somehow beginned to
> take 5 minutes to get a GNOME login (where 5-10 sec is normal...). So, i
> logged in as root, ran system-config-authentification, turned on user
> info cacheing, logged back out, and things worked.
what's wrong with logging as any unprivileged user, to open a xterm,
to run "su -" and then system-config-authentification ?
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Hello, this is Darl McBride, and I pronounce Linux as UNIX.
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