From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 25 10: 4: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4469337B637 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:04:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA68214; Thu, 25 May 2000 10:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <392D5CFC.C24A2A34@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:03:56 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0523 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Camba Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with root References: <392CD307.908859BF@freewwweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Camba wrote: > > i'm having two problems with the root account: > > 1) i can't start kde. after the login screen, the goes screen black, > then goes back to the login screen. i've been using fvwm2, and it > worked fine. You really don't want to run X as root. It's a big security hole. Much better to be a regular user and su when you need to. > 2) this may be the cause of the first problem. i can't seem to change > the root's shell, or any other settings. Use vipw. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message