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ONEEYEMAN
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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject: [SOLVED]: KDE 3.4 strange behaviour |
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Hi, ALL,
I recently re-installed the Gentoo with 2005.0 clean build, and put there KDE 3.4.1.
Now yesterday I wanted to reboot and login as "root" to run ODBCConfig. But, for some reason it gives "Root login is not permited". I can still login as my regular user though...
As far as I know, the ODBC configuration utility has to be run from the "root" account, but it looks like I am not able to...
Is it something on the KDE part, or is it something I didn't configure properly?
Thank you.
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Carlo
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: KDE 3.4 strange behaviour |
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| ONEEYEMAN wrote: | | KDE part, or is it something I didn't configure properly? |
No, it's configured correctly. You should never run a whole desktop as root. Use su, sudo and kdesu.
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ONEEYEMAN
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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OK, but then how I should run the "ODBCConfig" utility? Also I remember in 3.3, it was possible...
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cklimt
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Hi ONEEYEMAN,
Sometime ago it happened to me something similar in KDE. The problem was that I was not in the wheel group. Maybe after the fresh install you forgot to put you in the group.
Hope this help
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ONEEYEMAN
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Thank you for the reply, cklimt.
It's not about my own account. It's about "root" account. I could do "su:" without any problems. But if I ran the ODBCConfig it says that it couldn't find the library needed to run.
My guess is, that it has to be run from the root account, but I can't get there...
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l0ner
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:37 am Post subject: Re: KDE 3.4 strange behaviour |
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| Carlo wrote: | | No, it's configured correctly. You should never run a whole desktop as root. Use su, sudo and kdesu. |
What gives you the right to make such comments?  Being a developer? ROFL
There are very valid reasons for logging in to an X session as root.
Su / sudo / et all are not valid solutions for everything, and anyone who says so is truely ignorant.
Other than that, I though gentoo is about choices?
Does anyone know what causes this behaviour?
As far as I can see this thread is still unanswered. |
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l0ner
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I looked and found that the /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc included in kde 3.4.1 has the following line:
AllowRootLogin=false
change it to
AllowRootLogin=true
Then you should be allowed to login to kdm as root again. |
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