From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 23:03:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909032303.01914.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46d08bd30909031335k13399de4ja47e681f2f966760@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 03 September 2009 22:35:28 Nick Khamis wrote:
> When I do a:
>
> rc-update add xdm default
>
> Gentoo does not fire up but rather xdm, and my root login fails even
> thought I know its the right username password.
Root login to console or root login to X?
Almost every sane distro on the planet ships with X root login disabled. This
is a very good thing and only stupid people expect otherwise or try to change
it.
It is also possible to disable root login on the console (via pam) but this is
not normally the default.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-03 20:25 [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 20:29 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-09-03 20:31 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 20:31 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 20:35 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:01 ` Allan Gottlieb
2009-09-03 21:05 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:05 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 21:03 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-09-03 21:19 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 23:46 ` Allan Gottlieb
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