cannot login as root anymore

Barry, you indicate that you have been using Mepis for a couple weeks. Have you recently done any type of update/upgrade to your system or add any particular applications? If so, what messages did you get before and after?

Also, when your system says, "root login not allowed", can you please be more specific as to where you are seeing that message? Are you seeing in in the kdm GUI screen, one of the text consoles (ctl+alt+f1 through f6) or somewhere else? What are you trying to do that you get the message?

Also, question number 34b: Did you change the root's password recently?

Once we know better what you have done or wanted to do, we can give you better advice. If you accidently changd the root password and forgot it you can use the Live CD to reboot your system and make a few changes, but give us some more info first

Jon

i havent changed the root password. i have updated thru synaptic package manager. i see it when i try to do the user login at kde gui login. not a big deal just kinda stranghe that it all of a sudden started

Your system is broken, you need to reinstall. So sorry.

regards,
Jimmy

INTEL P-IV/HT 3.0GHz - 2X256 DDR3200 - Debian, Etch Beta-3
KDE 3.5.4 - kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp - My iMAC runs Debian, Sarge

hahahahahhahaha.. nah its ok
its not that big a deal

can you not-logon as root on kde ONLY?
can you change to root in a terminal?

I think you've managed to update kdm and it replaced your original configuration file.

Go to /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc and make sure "AllowRootLogin=true"

Michael
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