[AmdPopper]

I need to know how to login into the GUI as a root user. I cannot create users because when I try to upen UserDrake I get this Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exsist O_o????? I need to know how to create new users in the terminal. I also need to know how to change the permissions in ther terminal or a dir and all of the sub directories.

Thanks

[Arkaine23]

You can su root and then add users from the command line.
man useradd or maybe its man adduser
should be able to explain the syntax.

You should be able to login as root though...

[AmdPopper]

It gives me that BS graphical interface when I boot and only has one user to select from I can't type in root//**********

[Arkaine23]

From text-mode aka run level 3.

as root you can cd /home/root

and then make or edit a file called .xinitrc with whatever editor you like

nano .xinitrc
pico .xinitrc
vi .xinitrc

then you just stick a line of text in there so root's default gui is defined like so

startkde

save the file and exit

now type:

startx

[Arkaine23]

Originally posted by AmdPopper
It gives me that BS graphical interface when I boot and only has one user to select from I can't type in root//**********

When it boots, there should be an option to enter text mode or run level 3. Maybe by pressing F1 or something like that....

login as root

You can edit /etc/inittab with nano, pico, vi, or whatever text editor you like.

cd /etc
pico inittab

and change the default run level from 5 to 3. Then you will boot into text mode instead of graphical mode and can add users with the standard tools (commad line that I suggested above). And each user will need a /home/username/.xinitrc file to define the user's default gui.

You can then type startx as any user and go to a gui (kde in my example). Or you can just add the users while in text mode and edit /etc/inittab back to default=5.