Re: CDE

[Stephen Smoogen <smooge redhat com>]

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Tom Burke wrote:

> Hey there...
> 
> 	I just re-installed the CDE on my 4.2 system...  It used
> to work, but I disabled it.  After reinstallation, I get the
> login screen just fine.  It won't let me log in as root
> (never did).  If I try to log in as anyone else, it 
> doesn't work.  It appears as if it is throwing the system
> into an unsupported video mode...  After a few seconds/minutes,
> (,aybe after I press a key), it bombs out & takes me back
> to the login screen...  Yes, I have a working windows
> manager...  I am using fvwm right now...  I don't know
> what video mode would be unsupported, but here's my hardware.
> 
> ATI mach 64 2M
> Monitor is a DELL 15", multisync
> 32M RAM
> 
> That's all that's pertinent, I suppose...  Any help
> would be appreciated.
> 

CDE is configured by default to -not- allow root logins from the console.
This is default for obvious security reasons.  If you wish to bypass
the security, there are 3 things you can do:

	1: Add 'dt' to the '/etc/securetty' file.
	2: Remove '/etc/securetty'.
        3: Remove the line in '/etc/pam.d/dtlogin' referencing
           'securetty'.

You can hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the "Virtual Console" login.