root can ONLY access yast, no desktop

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meesabax

Beginner

Posts: 2

Tuesday, September 21st 2004, 1:06am

root can ONLY access yast, no desktop

I am running SUSE 9.1 with KDE 3.2. Follwing one of the updates from YOU I was unable to log into a KDE desktop as root (root works fine in command-line). when I enter root password etc at the login screen I am taken to the YAST screen. When I quit YAST I am taken back to login. I cannot access my root desktop, run any programs as root from the GUI, etc

Please HELP! Thanks :cry:

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Donald

Trainee

Posts: 53

Tuesday, September 21st 2004, 7:53am

I had the same problem.

You need to be able to reset the default session type for root. You may have a button on your login screen that allows you to do this - a drop down selection which lets you select kde. If not, as with me, then you need to change the kdmrc file - in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/. This should have a section headed [X-:*-Greeter]. In it set the AdminSession = to blank (delete whatever is after the

and set HideMenu=false. This should restore the drop down menu and then you can select kde as the default login for root.

Donald

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meesabax

Beginner

Posts: 2

Wednesday, September 22nd 2004, 1:37am

THANK YOU

You rock!

Worked like a charm! One caveat for future forum users:
Do a search for files named kdmrc. I found that I had four versions in various places and it took some time to figure out which one was actually being loaded.

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Donald

Trainee

Posts: 53

Thursday, September 23rd 2004, 6:48pm

A pleasure, glad it worked OK.

Donald

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