Re: New year problem: Problem with grub

Githin Alapatt said on Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:10:13AM +0530,:

 > I was cherfully working with ubuntu till i wanted to lock my grub. I
 > went to the command mode of the grub and typed md5crypt pass
 > i noted it down (correctly, coz i made someone also check it).
 > Then i booted up and made the entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst
 > password --md5 $11231231231lljhkj (something like that)
 > 
 > Now when i use my machine, i cannot run any root priveledged programs
 > from the X. It asks for the password and then nothing happens. Just
 > waits for a long time - about 4 minutes and then it pops up. Everytime
 > i have to open a program with root  only execute, i have to wait this
 > long.

Err.. aren't  these two unrelated?  Please check the login  manager of
the display manager  (KDM/GDM) to see if root  logins are allowed from
X. You can always install and run sudo to doo admin tasks. 
 

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Mahesh T. Pai

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