Mandrake 10.1 login trouble: HEEELLLLP!!

[Babbage]

I'm obviously a newbie in linux. But even some experienced guys failed to answer the following question: How to login as root in Mandrake 10.1?? Answers anyone? I have been trying hopelessly for ages!

 

[vinayasurya]

Select failsafe in boot menu. Then type init 1 as option in init select. You can login as root.

 

[JGuru]

Open Konsole (similar to DOS prompt in Windows)
Type su - (Press Enter Key)
Now it would ask for the password , so type in the root password (press Enter)
again. Now you have logged in a root. You can open any application from the
Konsole itself , for eg., type 'konqueror' (Enter). Now Konqueror would be opened with full access to all the folders, even System files.

 

[mehulved]

Don't ever login as root. Use su in terminal if you want to use root account. That's the safe way out.