I have installed Ubuntu via Crouton on my ChromeBook. So far, everything works fine.
The problem is, it starts with the normal user that was set up.
I have enabled the root account, and set a password (as usual).
Now I want to login (graphically) as root.
The way I start gnome now is: sudo startunity.
How can I start it as root ?
When I click on logout, it just shuts the gnome session down.
It seems that part of the answer is doing something like:
sudo enter-chroot
su root --> enter password
startunity
Now the only question remaining is how to set the default user, so I don't have to enter the password every time....
1 Answer
Ah, found it.
In /usr/local/bin/enter-chroot
there are a few defines first.
e.g. USERNAME='1000'
where 1000 is the id of the user that unity is started with.
Since the user "root" always has id 0, switch it to 0 and it starts it as root.
