On Wednesday 12 August 2015 01:45:08 pm Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 12 August 2015 16:49:56 Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Debian has decided not to allow GUI root log-ins. It is not a case of > > > > I'm not so sure whether it has anything to do with Debian, but rather the > > default tdm config file specifies safer when there are alternatives > > available. > > Well, I have always understood from other Debian users that it does, I have > used several different DEs with Debian, all with the same set-up, and it does > not apply to all other distros whichever DE you use. I have not had a GUI > root log-in since I abandoned a brief spell with OpenSuse many years ago. > > I have always installed Debian with root enabled. This may make a difference. I don't remember ever being offered that option when I installed. Nor a few other things that I was used to, like being able to configure my network as opposed to the installation just using DHCP because it found DHCP on the network. :-( Where is this option available? Or was I supposed to install with some specific invocation that I missed? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin