I am using Linux Mandrake 10.0 and I want to log on as root, but the login screen that shows a list of users only shows my non root user, but no root user. Is there a way to login as root in Linux Mandrake 10.0? Any help would be greatly appreciated If you don't see Luigi don't look for him.

if you just need a console for root open up a console and type su then your root password if you want a graphical interface as root kill the X server and go into console land - there login as root and then type startx to get the gui again Money not an issue? Where do you live and when are you not home? I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just gonna steal some stuff

Thank you for that, I will try it. But I would like to get the root user to show up in the users list. If you don't see Luigi don't look for him.

I get te following error when I try to kill Xserver" "No such pid". Can you help me with that? If you don't see Luigi don't look for him.

Was able to kill the program. I logged on as root then started Xserver, but I still don't have root provliges. Please help. If you don't see Luigi don't look for him.

Firstly you shouldn't really be logging in as root, especially into X. A better solution would be to log in as a regular user and then use su or sudo to do anything that requires root privilages. Saying that you can still achieve what you want, are you using kdm, gdm or xdm as your graphical login manager? If I remember correctly mandrake has a customised version of kdm called mdm which was used as default. I'm sure you can select what users are displayed from within the mandrake control centre (mcc).

If you to that control panel for the login manager (I dont remember exactly where it is) there will be a checkmark next to the root user (or maybe checkmarks next to everybody except root). Either check root, or uncheck it as the case may be.