[colug-432] Root Login Debian

Richard Holbert holbert.13 at osu.edu
Mon Feb 13 13:49:33 EST 2012


On 02/13/2012 01:35 PM, Thomas Cranston wrote:
> Hi
>
> Everytime I boot and then login to Debian 5.0.1 as root I get message
> "The system administrator is not allowed to login from this screen"
>
> I thought maybe I used wrong root PW and tried a made up one, and got
> "incorrect" message, I am sure the password is not the problem.
>
> How do I login as root?
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You could try logging in as a regular user and then using 'su -' from a 
shell prompt to log in as root, or if you are in /etc/sudoers you could 
try 'sudo su -'

Rick


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