graphical login screen

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Sun Jan 3 20:09:54 UTC 2010


On 10-01-03 14:49:14, Ralph Blach wrote:
> On Fedora 12, my machine is running to init 5, and comes up to a 
> graphical login screen,  How do I change the users showed on the
> screen, I see users, but no root,
> 
> I would only like to see only the user which I specify, and of course
> root.

It would be foolish to log in graphically as root.  Don't do it.  Log 
in in text mode as root by switching to a different Virtual Terminal 
with Ctrl-Shift-F2 (F1 to F6, F7 or sometimes F1 is the X session).  
>From a graphical login, either use the normal graphical tools and 
authenticate from time to time, or open a terminal and `su -` to become 
root there.

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