For security reasons root login has been disabled in Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Here are the quick steps to enable root access to KDE 1. Edit kdmrc file in /etc/kde4/kdm and change AllowRootLogin=false to AllowRootLogin=true Use the following command line option to achieve this: #sudo sed -i ‘s/AllowRootLogin=false/AllowRootLogin=true/g’ 2. Set password for root account and enable it. To [...]

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