'root login not allowed'

Hi,

I've just updated my system to KDE3.4 and now when the usual login screen comes up it already has my username in it. Well, that's fine, and my login works well. But I can't login as root anymore, it says 'Root login not allowed'. What the...! I can't login as root anymore! Has anyone had this problem before? Could anyone please tell me how to fix it?

I can open applications as root though, like YAST, File manager as superuser, Shell as superuser, change to root in shell with 'su' etc. but not to login at the beginning or to change to root session after.

Is it a new security feature of the new KDE3.4 or something's broken?

Thank you.

Have a look at:-

http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...howtopic=13277

OK, but how do I run xconfig now? it doesn't run from user account, it says some sort of X server error happened.

This is from another SuSE message board:

"You'll need to change a flag in the kdmrc file. I ran into this when I upgraded a 9.2 box to KDE 3.4.

"Look at the file /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

"Search for a line that says "AllowRootLogin" ... change it to 'true' if it's set to false. restart KDM and that should take care of it I think.

"HTH,
--cnb"

Also---I think your problem with xconfig can be solved by logging into a terminal as "sux" rather than "su"---this gives you access to the xserver.

problem with xconfig can be solved by logging into a terminal as "sux" rather than "su"---this gives you access to the xserver

No, it doesn't work, it says unknown host:

~> sux
hostname: Unknown host
Password:
hostname: Unknown host
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "/unix:0.0" in "extract" command
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