root user and any GUI

[Dan Lund]

Right, which leads me back to what I just said.

On 11/28/06, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently not.  Trying to log in as root at the ubuntu gdm login is
> prohibited even tho the real root user is enabled and has a password.
> Logging in as me and using Ctrl-Alt-F2 to go to the second textual console
> allows me to login there as root.  However, trying to startx there gives the
> same result as trying to do so inside an xterminal in which I have done su
> -.  Specifically:
> root at ldesk:~# startx
> xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.7463
>
> X: warning; process set to priority -1 instead of requested priority 0
>
> Fatal server error:
> Server is already active for display 0
>         If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
>         and start again.
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> giving up.
> xinit:  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> root at ldesk:~#
> Now this makes sense to me since there really IS an x-server running and it
> does own resources I would be using.
>
>
> On 11/28/06, Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote:
> > > So once again, I would like to be capable of using a gui desktop and gui
> > > tools while logged in a root when I as sole proprietor of my network and
> > > computing facilities decide to do so.  I want the freedom and do not
> want my
> > > OS to prevent me.  My risk and my freedom.  Like I said I use sudo for
> most
> > > such things but just hate being a second class citizen (unable to use
> > > MYchoice of tools) when I decide to be root.
> >
> > Yes, you can run startx as root.
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