[Gllug] Re-establishing access to Root

[Ashley Evans]

On Wednesday 03 November 2004 17:36, David Reed wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 17:22, Ashley Evans wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 November 2004 17:06, David Reed wrote:
> > > Stumbling about in my own ignorance, I have managed to disable access
> > > to the Root desktop. As I am not sure how I managed to do that in the
> > > first place, I am bemused about how to correct my mistake. I know that
> > > I can use su to gain access to root, but it can be inconvenient at
> > > times. I have sought answers using Google and there seems to be very
> > > little on this topic.
> > > I am using SuSE 9.1 pro and GRUB with which to boot up.
> > >
> > > David Reed
> >
> > We'll probably need more information to be of any use:
> >  Is it X or Console?
> >  Any error messages?
> >  Do you know roughly what you did?
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Ashley
>
> It is X. There are no error messages at all. This probably occurred when I
> disabled password access to my normal desktop.
>
> David Reed

It sounds like it may be a SuSE specific issue. I don't use SuSE myself so I'm 
not sure what to try OTTOMH. 

I'd proably start googling and seeing what's on the SuSE support lists/forums. 
Once you can give a more indepth report of what's happening I'm sure we can 
help you.

regards,

Ashley
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