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#1 2013-06-13 23:20:46
- julietbravo
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Disable automatic login without root privileges [solved]
Well, within hours after first trying Arch I made the first 'interesting' mistake 
I followed this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au … al_console approach to automatically login into KDE. This does however mean that I always log in as a user, and I can't manage to login as a root in whatever way. No matter how I log out as a user, I automatically log back in as the same user, making it impossible to login as root and change system settings or revert my settings for auto login (I didn't setup the sudo package yet).
Is there any way to (1) force Arch to login as root in this situation, or (2) revert these changes withour root privileges?
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#2 2013-06-13 23:50:53
- lucke
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Re: Disable automatic login without root privileges [solved]
Type in "su" to change to root.
Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the second virtual console.
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#3 2013-06-13 23:54:05
- HalosGhost
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Re: Disable automatic login without root privileges [solved]
You can also just login as root in any terminal under the first virtual terminal using `su`.
All the best,
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#4 2013-06-14 00:07:45
- julietbravo
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Re: Disable automatic login without root privileges [solved]
Type in "su" to change to root.
Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the second virtual console.
Hmm, I need to seriously work on my Linux skills (which is partly why I installed Arch) 
. Ctrl-Alt-F2 did the trick, thanks!
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#5 2013-06-14 00:10:57
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Re: Disable automatic login without root privileges [solved]
You can also just login as root in any terminal under the first virtual terminal using `su`.
All the best,
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Surely you meant "without needing to use `su'"?
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#6 2013-06-14 00:14:32
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Re: Disable automatic login without root privileges [solved]
Surely you meant "without needing to use `su'"?
No, I meant, that (while logged in as any user), you can open a terminal, and run `su` to do work as root. My apologies for it not being clear.
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#7 2013-06-14 00:21:45
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Re: Disable automatic login without root privileges [solved]
Hmm, I'm pretty sure that I tried that (knowing it from other linux distro's). Would that also work (on a clean Arch system) without having the sudo package installed?
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#8 2013-06-14 00:44:16
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Re: Disable automatic login without root privileges [solved]
Yes.
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