Daemon Dancing in the Dark: Allow KDE root login

February 02, 2006

Allow KDE root login

A little note if you want to be able to log in as root from the KDE login screen:

To enable login as root in KDE open /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and change the line
AllowRootLogin=false
to
AllowRootLogin=true

There, that's easy enough, right?

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You'd think, but not if you don't HAVE a /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc! (/usr/local/share is as far as I could get).

Posted by: Selkie on May 10, 2006 05:07 PM

I wonder if you have KDE, then. Maybe you are running GNOME?

Posted by: Jonathan Arnold on May 12, 2006 07:09 PM

mine is in
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

Posted by: tom on May 31, 2006 03:46 PM

I wonder if it is due to how it was installed? Maybe there's some kind of difference between the port and the package? Or maybe if it is installed via something downloaded from the KDE site itself? Mine was in /usr/share, but then again, it is pre-installed by PC-BSD.

Posted by: Jonathan Arnold on May 31, 2006 10:30 PM

thanks you:

sometime is usefull to do:
# find / -name "kdmrc" -print

Posted by: zoreil on June 19, 2006 08:02 AM

Well, find will work, but man it's apt to take a long time!-) 'locate' is a better choice, assuming you've built the database for it (which happens weekly in the normal case).

Posted by: Jonathan Arnold on June 19, 2006 08:58 AM

[code]# find / -name "kdmrc" -print[/code]

^ That did the trick. I found mine located here:
/opt/kde/share/config/kdm

Running VectorLinux 5.1.1 SOHO (Slackware 10.1)

Thanks. :)

Posted by: VectorFan on July 10, 2006 07:41 PM

on debian etch it is in /etc/kd3/kdm/kdmrc

Posted by: jemm on March 3, 2007 03:16 AM

This, saved me alot. I was setting up a bsd server and i needed root login.

Thank you so much.

/Chuks

Posted by: Chuks on March 14, 2007 12:40 PM

This find command work a lot more like a windows user wouls expect.

Type the following

This will pace you at the very bottom or top however you think about it level of your drive structure.

cd /

Then type this to search your entire drive

find ./ -iname kdmrc

Thanks Lindylex

Posted by: Lindylex on September 30, 2007 02:23 PM

This find command work a lot more like a windows user wouls expect.

Type the following

This will place you at the very bottom or top however you think about it level of your drive structure.