From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing In Gnome Working
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:46:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9ljkv7fsg.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46d08bd30909031419i5b3e450eg3f6fb19bf8487844@mail.gmail.com> (Nick Khamis's message of "Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:52 -0400")
At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:19:52 -0400 Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
> oops, i'm stupid, I tries to login xdm using root, I saw this was possible
> using gnome so I figures what the heck.
If you are using gnome (and hence gdm not xdm) then trying to login as
root from the gui results in a dialog box asking you if you REALLY want
to. Do you get a dialog box?
allan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-03 18:37 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
2009-09-03 21:19 ` Nick Khamis
2009-09-03 23:46 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
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