[X4U] Single user not an Admin user: A fix anyone?

[Nick Scalise]

 On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 08:16AM, Robert Ameeti <robert at ameeti.net> wrote:

>>Yes, I think Rober twas missing my point. He was still trying to log into
>>root without enabling it first. I just composed an email response to him
>>and sent it to the list but forgot to send it plain text and it got
>>rejected, d'oh!
>>
>>Anyway Paul, you have now confirmed that you can indeed "enable' root via
>>the CD - thanks!
>
>Enabling root is not the hurdle that I have. It is allowing for root to be accessed when the Display Login Window is set to Name and Password. It would appear that your setting is for List of Users. If ours was set to list of users, then we would then get the drop  down and be able to tell the system that we wanted to log in as 'root'.
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If root is enabled, there will be a "Other User" when there is a "List of Users". If Login Options is set to "Name and Password" and root is enabled, just enter root as "Username" and use whatever password you reset it to.

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Nick Scalise
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