[K12OSN] [K12LTSP] enable root login from remote-terminal

[Petre Scheie]

I think control over whether root can login or not is handled by the Display Manager, be 
it GDM or KDM, not the Desktop (Gnome, KDE).  I think you're correct that there is such 
a setting for GDM, and Gnome gives one access to that setting.  But if KDM is being 
used, I don't think setting that option while in Gnome will have any effect.  And so 
far, I've not been able to find where that setting is under KDM.

Petre

Krsnendu Dasa wrote:
> In Gnome there is a setting for logins that allows you to login to a GUI as
> root. Check the option allow root login from terminal or something like
> that. In the same control panel you can change the picture for the terminal
> login screen etc.
> 
> I am guessing this is what you are after.
> 
> On 09/11/06, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
>>
>> Dan Young wrote:
>> > LarryT wrote:
>> >> In both kdmrc and kdmrc.ltsp i changed the two lines with *true*, 
>> but i
>> >> still have the same "admin is not allowed to login..."
>> >> Do i need to restart anything for it works ?
>> >
>> > Hmm, gdm has gdm-restart and gdm-safe-restart, but I don't know what 
>> the
>> > equivalent is for kdm. As long as nobody is logged in, you could do 
>> this
>> > from the console:
>> >
>> > # telinit 3
>> > # telinit 5
>> >
>> > I wish Fedora ran the display manager as a service in /etc/rc.d/init.d
>> > (like Ubuntu) instead of from inittab.
>> >
>> Actually, I've noticed that with KDM, root can't login directly even on
>> the console, at
>> least with the default settings.  I'll need to figure out how to get
>> around this at some
>> point, but haven't had the time so far.  Also, I've posted about how the
>> login screen,
>> aka the KDM greeter, doesn't seem to respond to changes made in the
>> Control Center in KDE.
>>
>> To switch from GDM to KDM, make the change in /etc/sysconfig/desktop and
>> then run
>> gdm-stop; gdm will stop, but then kdm will automatically be started.
>>
>> Petre
>>
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