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I’m trying to log into my Ubuntu server as root using the GUI. It tells me that the password is incorrect. In the terminal, I can ‘su root’ using the password I set, but it doesn’t seem to take in the GUI.

I don’t know what GUI I’m using. The research I did said to enter the command
'ls /usr/bin/*session`

It returned two items: gnome and xfce4. I don’t really know how to determine which one is being used, or why I have two.

The root user can’t be different between terminal and GUI, can it? The same password should apply both places, right?

Thanks for any advice

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Typically you would not login to the ui as root, you would login under whatever user you have and then invoke root or raise the permission level temporarily. Otherwise you will have to access the gdm.conf file and change to allow for root access to login.

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Normally I wouldn’t try to log in as root, but there’s a ‘remote login’ toggle that I can’t get to stay on (opened seperate topic for this), so I thought I’d try logging in as root and turning it on hoping it will stay. Really just grasping for straws in an unfamiliar environment. Thanks!

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When you say remote login, are you referring to ssh, vnc or another method?

edit: going to reply to that question in your other post

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I am trying to use RDP client from windows.

ssh works fine. that’s how I currently have to connect to the server, but I want something that uses the GUI for a few things.

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Your RDP server on Ubuntu may be security off for RDP /XRDP for root, especially if you attempt to login from Cloud address, vs local net grid address.

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First, can you connect as a regular user?
Where are you seeing the remote login toggle?
Are you the regular admin for this machine? This question is due to the next one - has the admin got Puppet, Ansible, etc, running that might be doing the toggling.