Re: cde stops root login

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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:35:48 -0400

"Bob Woodward" <woody@rkwco.com> wrote in message
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> I must have done something, somewhere along the line, so that I can not
> log into a SS20-Solaris 8 system as the root user. I do have another
> user id that is set to user number 0 so effectively I do have root user
> access, and it works just fine. Also, I can su to root without any
> problems. What happens is from the login screen, I put in the username
> of root, it's password, and the system then runs some stuff, changes the
> screen a couple of times like it's going to log me in but at the point
> where the screen should change to the actual cde screen, I'm instead
> presented with the login screen again. I am on the console and the
> problem is only on the root user id. All other logins work just fine.
>
> I ususally admin this system via telnet then su to do the work I need
> but I wanted to do some updates and that was when I found I couldn't get
> in as the user root. Any suggestions on what I might have screwed up?
> TIA
>

It may be that your CDE environment is messed up. I've seen this on both
Solaris and VMS. Rename the /.dt directory to something else and try to
login again with CDE. This will force CDE to recreate the CDE /.dt
directory.

Brad

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