login as root from login screen event though you don't have a root account


If you recently installed or upgrade to ubuntu  12.04 . you have seen that the "other" option is missing from login screen. Due to which you are not able to login in as root from login screen.

If we want to add that "other" option to login screen.
we need to follow following steps

1. login through any account.
2. open terminal and write following command

    sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf 


3. Terminal ask for superuser password.
4. Add following line to lightdm.conf file

   [SeatDefaults]
   greeter-show-manual-login=true













 5. Reboot, now you can login as username "root" and with root password

Share this post and spread the knowledge --->

No comments:

Post a Comment