K Sandesh Kamath wrote: this is because you should not log in as root login as normal user, open a terminal, cd to /etc/pam.d, su to root. edit /etc/pam.d/gdm, find the line; auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet replace it with; auth required pam_succeed_if.so logout as root close terminal, logout of x as user and login as root. please do not post in html. thank you. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****