Creating a Root Login Account

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Default Login Account

When you install Freespire, it automatically creates one login account. This login account will be designated by your name (i.e. "Frank Smith"), as entered during the install process. This is a USER account but has "ADMIN privileges." For security reasons, this account is NOT running as root, but rather as "pseudo root." In other words, it will let you admin your Freespire computer, just as root would, but without lowering the security by having you run directly as root. You may be asked for a password to perform certain things in this mode.

After Freespire is installed, you can of course add, edit or remove the default login account.

Steps to Activating the Root Login Account

Even though it is recommended that you avoid running as root, and the Freespire OS has been designed so there should be little or no reason to ever run as root, should you want to set up a root login account, it is easy enough to do. Here's how:

• Open the User Manager (KUser) program. You will find this program in the Launch Menu (lower left-hand corner), under the Settings menu, and then Additional Options.
• Double click on the root account to open the User Properties dialog box.

• • Click on the Groups tab and put a check next to the desktop group.

• • Click on the User Info tab and deselect Account disabled.

• • Also on the User Info tab click on the Set Password button and enter a Password, Verify, then click OK.

• • Click OK, which will save your changes and close the User Properties dialog box.
• Quit KUser and logout and the next time you login, the root account should be available for login.