[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

Thu Apr 12 04:41:50 CEST 2012

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Tony Blackwell <tablackwell at bigpond.com> wrote:
+> As the OP, I'll comment that although the config was AllowRoot=true, in
+> /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, all previous versions of Mandriva/Mageia going
+> back a number of years, right up to M2beta1 after online updates, have
+> supported setting this flag as allowing graphical root access to gnome as
+> well as kde environments.  I hear the impassioned objections of some of our
+> leaders, and admit that the weight of expressed opinion in this thread is
+> against it, but a number of us have found the ability to do this useful at
+> times and I request its restoration.
+>
+> I'd be happy as ftg commented that it still have the same red screen warning
+> etc etc as before - agree it makes sense not to be obvious.
+>
+
+[root at localhost ~]# LetMeLoginToXasRoot
+bash: LetMeLoginToXasRoot: command not found
+:-(
+
+[root at localhost ~]# vi LetMeLoginToXasRoot
+{clickity click, clackity clack :wq}
+
+[root at localhost ~]# cat LetMeLoginToXasRoot
+#/bin/sh
+echo
+echo "So you want to be naughty?...OK ;o)"
+sed -i 's/user != root//' /etc/pam.d/kdm
+sed -i 's/AllowRootLogin=false/AllowRootLogin=true/'\
+ /var/lib/mageia/kde4-profiles/Default/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
+echo
+echo "Enter: service dm restart"
+echo "Then have a lot of fun!"
+echo
+exit 0
+EOF
+
+[root at localhost ~]# chmod 744 LetMeLoginToXasRoot
+
+[root at localhost ~]# ./LetMeLoginToXasRoot
+
+So you want to be naughty?...OK ;o)
+
+Enter: service dm restart
+Then have a lot of fun!
+
+[root at localhost opt]# service dm restart
+:o)
+
+[root at localhost opt]# GetMeABeer
+bash: GetMeABeer: command not found
+
+[root at localhost opt]# sudo GetMeABeer
+sudo: GetMeABeer: get your own #!@$ Beer!
+;o)
+
+HTH - RJ
+
+"Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things,
+as that would also stop them from doing clever things." - Doug Gwyn
+