1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)
</TITLE>
<LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
<LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20beta2%20woes%20and%20no%20graphical%20root%20%28tonyb%29&In-Reply-To=%3CCABrUAS%3DLLzGs4UJc8_mYPR%2BLU_JEKZvFQ2MMgp0TcpvqxOtN5A%40mail.gmail.com%3E">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<LINK REL="Previous" HREF="007000.html">
<LINK REL="Next" HREF="006986.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<H1>[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)</H1>
<B>R James</B>
<A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20beta2%20woes%20and%20no%20graphical%20root%20%28tonyb%29&In-Reply-To=%3CCABrUAS%3DLLzGs4UJc8_mYPR%2BLU_JEKZvFQ2MMgp0TcpvqxOtN5A%40mail.gmail.com%3E"
TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)">upsnag2 at gmail.com
</A><BR>
<I>Thu Apr 12 04:41:50 CEST 2012</I>
<P><UL>
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007000.html">[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="006986.html">[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#6985">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#6985">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#6985">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#6985">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<HR>
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Tony Blackwell <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">tablackwell at bigpond.com</A>> wrote:
><i> As the OP, I'll comment that although the config was AllowRoot=true, in
</I>><i> /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, all previous versions of Mandriva/Mageia going
</I>><i> back a number of years, right up to M2beta1 after online updates, have
</I>><i> supported setting this flag as allowing graphical root access to gnome as
</I>><i> well as kde environments.  I hear the impassioned objections of some of our
</I>><i> leaders, and admit that the weight of expressed opinion in this thread is
</I>><i> against it, but a number of us have found the ability to do this useful at
</I>><i> times and I request its restoration.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'd be happy as ftg commented that it still have the same red screen warning
</I>><i> etc etc as before - agree it makes sense not to be obvious.
</I>><i>
</I>
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at localhost</A> ~]# LetMeLoginToXasRoot
bash: LetMeLoginToXasRoot: command not found
:<i>-(
</I>
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at localhost</A> ~]# vi LetMeLoginToXasRoot
{clickity click, clackity clack :wq}
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at localhost</A> ~]# 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
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at localhost</A> ~]# chmod 744 LetMeLoginToXasRoot
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at localhost</A> ~]# ./LetMeLoginToXasRoot
So you want to be naughty?...OK ;o)
Enter: service dm restart
Then have a lot of fun!
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at localhost</A> opt]# service dm restart
:<i>o)
</I>
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at localhost</A> opt]# GetMeABeer
bash: GetMeABeer: command not found
[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at localhost</A> 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
</PRE>
<!--endarticle-->
<HR>
<P><UL>
<!--threads-->
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007000.html">[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="006986.html">[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#6985">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#6985">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#6985">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#6985">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>
|
