How to be root in Ubuntu:

As user, open shell and do >> sudo passwd root. Enter sudo password
and it will walk you through creating root password. This is how it worked
up to 13.04 in my experience...I'm assuming Ubuntu has kept permissions
the same in Trusty.

In Ubuntu the root account exists, but by default root has no password until
you create one and thereby activate the root account.

To make kdm/tdm display root accout for login, you probably will have to edit
/etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc to say either #AllowRootLogin=false (comment the line
out) or AllowRootLogin=true. In my kdmrc this is line number 252.




On 9/4/14, Thierry de Coulon <tdecoulon@...> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> A magazine I was reading talked about Deepin Linux ( a chinese Ubuntu
> derivative with an HTML 5 desktop environment).
>
> As the last Deepin is based on Trusty, I've installed it and then used
> Slavek's repositories to install R.14 on it: it works perfectly.
>
> Their native DE get's removed in the porcess and Deepin's own applications
> are
> not really great IMHO, so all thsi may be without real use, but TDE on
> Deepin
> works.
>
> I have to understand how to tweak Ubuntu to revert from using sudo to using
>
> root if I want to continue using this istall though...
>
> Thierry
>
>
>
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