How to Enable Login as Root in Ubuntu 12.04Precise Pangolin/11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

Enable root login.

Hi guys do you really want to enable root login in Ubuntu 12.04? As this not recommended, but it’s still possible to login with the root or the administrator account, here in this tutorial we are going to show you How to enable root login.

Why this mechanism is not preferred because small mistake while root login may cause risks to login as root. And here is complete tutorial where Still if you are willing to login as root then continue with the below steps.

To Enable root, open Terminal and enter following commands:

sudo passwd root
sudo sh -c 'echo "greeter-show-manual-login=true" >> /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf'

 

Cheers!!!