Re: Hello! / GDM root login ?

[Benjamin Klein-Fignier <bklein linux esiea fr>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kristian Rink wrote:

> So, I'm also having a short question, at first: After I built all the
> stuff on my box myself, everything works fine now with one exception: when
> using the GDM and trying to log on as 'root', I get a 'root login
> disallowed' error... Even switching the 'AllowRootLogin' in gdm.conf
> doesn't change this.... Any ideas on that? :)

I think you use gdm 2.0b2... This version of gdm has a bug which disallow
root login whatever the value of the 'AllowRootLogin' option. This bug is
corrected in version 2.0b4.

from 2.0b4 changelog:

1999-09-13    <mkp@mkp.net>
        * daemon/verify.c (gdm_verify_user): Fix root logins.


Ben.


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