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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
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Subject: Re: Can't login to root from X
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>  I have succesfully booted X by logging into my personal account.
>  
>  However, I cannot login to root.
>  
>  My root password is NULL.

X uses psuedo-ttys. By default, your the psuedo-tty are not set to be "secure".
If you really want to open up the ability for someone to login into the root
account from a network port, add the word "secure" to the ttypx in
/etc/ttys.

My advice is to log into the account as you and "su" to root. the root
account is not for logging into from either network or console.

--mark.