On 7/3/2011 9:56 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
The root account already exists, and you can log directly into it from a
text login prompt. You just can't do it through GDM, so you will have to
hop to another tty by hitting<ctrl>+<alt>+<f2> or boot to runlevel 3
(or the equivalent now that we are in the opening days or systemd). In
this case you are not "su -" to anything, you really are logged in as
root.
I will try learning how to boot runlevel 3 as an educational exercise
... scratch account still seems easiest
[...]
-Iwao
Thanks for the info!
Paul