On Tuesday 02 April 2019 13:19:12 deloptes wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> If that's the case, to get tdm back do this:
> >>
> >> dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
> >> dpkg-reconfigure tdm-trinity
> >
> > I assume this is as root while on stretch?
>
> correct
>
>

When you were installing, did you click to allow root login? or is there some 
other program where you allow it, e.g.: 

TCC / System Administration / Login Manager / Convenience
(You must open as root to make these changes.)

Also, if you are in Debian, you can open a root shell and accomplish this by 
changing users and groups, etc. (By the way, since you were having problems 
with menus earlier, which seemed password-related, maybe this is more of the 
same, and points to a similar cause for both. Could be this was on a 
different system?) Also I seem to recall some gui thingie which can do it. 

On Debian systems, I allow shadow passwords, but not root logins; at least, 
not on the first install. On another system, where I could have others 
occasionally getting into trouble, I might enable that, and disable sudo 
privileges for all users except myself; but on this, I am the only user, and 
there is nothing anybody could access on my system without actually sitting 
in my chair with my machine running ... which, unless it happens at gunpoint, 
seems unlikely. 

Bill