Enable the root to sign in on Ubuntu

[penguinette]

Does anyone know how to enable the root to actually be able to sign in (from the sign-in screen) on Ubuntu? I'm so tired of having to give my password and using the command line for doing everything. It would be a LOT easier just to sign in as root and take care of some of the important stuff I need to do. For instance, using the file manager to move files around, delete them, etc, is very difficult unless you use the root terminal.


I did set the root password using:

sudo passwd root


And now I have a root password, but it still won't let me sign in as root. I get the error:

Root is not allowed to sign in from this screen

Any help with this would be appreciated!

[hamburger123]

I think you can go to System on the panel, select Administration and then Login Screen Setup.

Find the tab that says Security or something and check 'allow root to log on using GDM'.

[leverknight1]

go to users and groups and click the show all users and change the root password and then go to the login screen setup and there is where you can change it so you can login as root i think it is the second tab to the right.

[penguinette]

Wow, that worked...... what a simple solution. Thanks so much!

[aysiu]

It may be better/easier to create a launcher with the command gksudo nautilus. That way you don't have to log out and log back in to make root changes.

[psic]

It may be better/easier to create a launcher with the command gksudo nautilus. That way you don't have to log out and log back in to make root changes.

This is a better, and safer, idea. There's a reason why they chose to not allow root to login. A user can move/delete his/her own files, and if you need to delete/modify sistem files, just 'su' then use midnight commander ('mc'). Very quick and painless.

[Curlydave]

Totally agreee on just using a root browser. You don't need to worry about signing on on different accounts.

[anarkhis]

It may be better/easier to create a launcher with the command gksudo nautilus. That way you don't have to log out and log back in to make root changes.

Hi aysiu, would you tell me what's gksudo nautilus for?
I tried it out and the screen showed me this:

(nautilus:7744): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
art_render_invoke: no image source given
art_render_invoke: no image source given