[K12OSN] Catch 22: Server Video Card gone bad... what now?

[Lance Jahnig]

>From: ahodson at elp.rr.com
>Reply-To: "Support list for open source software in schools." 
><k12osn at redhat.com>
>To: k12osn at redhat.com
>Subject: [K12OSN] Catch 22: Server Video Card gone bad... what now?
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:44:06 -0600
>
>Seems like this week is the bad-news week for my systems...
>
>Not one, but two K12LTSP V5 servers (same site!) have no video signal
>(black screen, amber monitor light). One of them is not providing dhcp,
>the second one is ok (client wise)
>
>My question to the gurus here is, what "su" command or configuration
>change can I use to allow ROOT to login from a client? I am not too
>pleased with the latest distro "forcing" you to be on the server for
>root access... This can be the perfect Catch 22 - need monitor to change
>monitor but I have no monitor...
>
>BTW - Thanks Petre for the earlier help.
>
>cheers
>A. Hodson
>El Paso ISD, TX
>-=o=-
>

if you are unable to use gdmsetup

edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf and add the following under security

[security]
AllowRemoteRoot=true