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Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Login as root does not work
From: Bogus Zaba <bogzab () blueyonder ! co ! uk>
Date: 2005-06-21 19:56:38
Message-ID: 42B870F6.1050204 () blueyonder ! co ! uk
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Rick Wagner wrote:

>On Monday 20 June 2005 1:19 pm, Bogus Zaba wrote:
>  
>
>>Werner Joss wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Samstag 11 Juni 2005 15:16 , Klaus-F. Kaal wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Thank you Werner,
>>>>
>>>>good hint, but I found that AllowRootLogin is set to true.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>ok, would have been just too easy :)
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Any other hint?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>not really,
>>>but I remember long time ago I had similar problems which turned out to be
>>>pam-related (try googling for that).
>>>or maybe it is some obscure suse/yast thingy -
>>>did you try the suse-lists ?
>>>
>>>werner
>>>p.s.:
>>>please do not top-post - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU
>>>- at least not in a thread which has been started with inline-quoting
>>>by 1st reply ;)
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>>No further hints from me, just confirmation that it has become a problem
>>for me also since I upgraded to KDE 3.4 from 3.2. (All on Suse 9.2). Now
>>if I want to login as root I have to exit current session, open a
>>console, login non-graphically as root and then do a "startx" command to
>>go graphical. If you find out how to solve the problem, do post the
>>answer back here. I would like to make life easier than as above.
>>
>>Bogus Zaba
>>    
>>
>
>Did you get ALL the occurrences of AllowRootLogin entries?  I had this 
>problem, and discovered the line exists twice in my kdmrc file (kde-3.4, 
>Fedora-3).  Check that you caught all of them.  Try 'grep 
>AllowRoot /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc' and see if you have more than one entry.  I 
>haven't looked at the content of the file, but my guess is the second 
>occurrence is in a duplicate section, and overrides the setting in the first 
>section.  So if you only change the first occurrence, as I did, it still 
>won't work.
>
>	--rick
>
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Thanks for that hint - led me to my solution. I looked for all kdmrc 
files as root in a console session and found that I had kdmrc files in 
these locations:

/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
/opt/kde3/share/config/SuSE/default/kdmrc
/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

In one of them (third one donw) AllowRootLogin was true but in two of 
them (first two) it was false. Setting them both to true fixed it for 
me. Fourth one contains a long hex string, not config info at all.

Bogus

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Rick Wagner wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">On Monday 20 June 2005 1:19 pm, Bogus Zaba wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">Werner Joss wrote:
    </pre>
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      <pre wrap="">On Samstag 11 Juni 2005 15:16 , Klaus-F. Kaal wrote:
      </pre>
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        <pre wrap="">Thank you Werner,

good hint, but I found that AllowRootLogin is set to true.
        </pre>
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      <pre wrap="">ok, would have been just too easy :)

      </pre>
      <blockquote type="cite">
        <pre wrap="">Any other hint?
        </pre>
      </blockquote>
      <pre wrap="">not really,
but I remember long time ago I had similar problems which turned out to be
pam-related (try googling for that).
or maybe it is some obscure suse/yast thingy -
did you try the suse-lists ?

werner
p.s.:
please do not top-post - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" \
                href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU</a>

- at least not in a thread which has been started with inline-quoting
by 1st reply ;)
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    <pre wrap="">No further hints from me, just confirmation that it has become a \
problem for me also since I upgraded to KDE 3.4 from 3.2. (All on Suse 9.2). Now
if I want to login as root I have to exit current session, open a
console, login non-graphically as root and then do a "startx" command to
go graphical. If you find out how to solve the problem, do post the
answer back here. I would like to make life easier than as above.

Bogus Zaba
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
Did you get ALL the occurrences of AllowRootLogin entries?  I had this 
problem, and discovered the line exists twice in my kdmrc file (kde-3.4, 
Fedora-3).  Check that you caught all of them.  Try 'grep 
AllowRoot /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc' and see if you have more than one entry.  I 
haven't looked at the content of the file, but my guess is the second 
occurrence is in a duplicate section, and overrides the setting in the first 
section.  So if you only change the first occurrence, as I did, it still 
won't work.

	--rick

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Thanks for that hint - led me to my solution. I looked for all kdmrc
files as root in a console session and found that I had kdmrc files in
these locations: 
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/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
/opt/kde3/share/config/SuSE/default/kdmrc
/var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc</pre> In one \
of them (third one donw) AllowRootLogin was true but in two of them (first two) it \
was false. Setting them both to true fixed it for me. Fourth one contains a long hex \
string, not config info at all. 
Bogus 
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