cant login as root

[Milan]

im trying to login as root but i get a login incorrect. i know my password is right because when im in the gui and want to view my logs, it asks for root password and it works. but whenever i open up a terminal and try to mount a drive, it says u must be root.
help, thanx
m

[fateswarm]

Originally posted by Milan:
<STRONG>im trying to login as root but i get a login incorrect. i know my password is right because when im in the gui and want to view my logs, it asks for root password and it works. but whenever i open up a terminal and try to mount a drive, it says u must be root.
help, thanx
m</STRONG>


Have you tried to "su root"?

[m3rlin]

there are two things that you should now, if he doesn't accept any connection from the terminal with login root thant's a good signal. Your configuration must be denying root login (leave this way, is more secure), and for you to mount drives you MUST be ROOT, just enter the command su, and the system will prompt for a password, and here you put the root password, and then you can do whoami, and you will see that you are root, so that means that you can do everthing you wannt in the system.
Hope i helped, hasta!!

[Milan]

Thanks a million