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[ILUG] cant log in as root in gnome

[ILUG] cant log in as root in gnome

Lars Hecking lhecking at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Aug 12 12:54:06 IST 2005


Darragh writes:
> Afternoon.
> For some reason, since atempting to recompile Gnome-Speech with FreeTTs support I can no longer log into gnome as root.  
> 
> Can anyone point me to a log file that I can look at to see what's going wrong?
> 
> I can log in as another user which is kind of interesting.
> 
> I'm using SuSE 9.3 with the packaged version of Gnome. 

 Verify the AllowRoot entry in gdm.conf (/etc/X11/gdm in Gentoo, don't know
 where on SuSE). IIRC there's also a gdm config menu somewhere on the Gnome
 login screen.




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