From: chris@internal.net   
      
   On 24/10/2025 at 10:47, s|b wrote:   
   > On Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:32:33 +0100, Chris Elvidge wrote:   
   >   
   > 8< snip >8   
   >> Never run X/Wayland as root!   
   >> Autologin should have been 'boss'.   
   >   
   > Yesterday, we found out how to make another account without admin   
   > rights. Today, I noticed under settings you can also make a guest   
   > account.   
   >   
   > So if we're going to do to help other people, the best way is to make an   
   > account with root access, then make an account (with password) with no   
   > root and the autologin with the latter?   
   >   
   > How can I access the root account if I do this? Autologin and then   
   > simply sign in with the root account?   
   >   
      
   You're installing Mint, right?   
   You specify your username during the install. As it happens this will   
   make a directory under /home with your username as its name. E.g. I   
   specify 'chris' as my username and get a directory /home/chris as my   
   home directory. You also have a user root with home directory /root.   
   This is standard. That's your user without root access and your user   
   with root access.   
   As an added 'bonus' Mint will also allow your user (chris) access to   
   root via sudo. Any users added after that will not have sudo access   
   until and unless you provide it (see visudo) but this is not usual   
   unless you are envisaging a multiuser system.   
      
   You can use user chris for autologin, it you want to.   
      
   According to your original post your boss, logged in as root, changed   
   the directory name under /home from (e.g.) chris to Chris - linux is   
   case sensitive, unlike Windows, so chris and Chris are different. Also   
   changing the name of a home directory does not change the username. So,   
   as I explained above, you cannot log in as Chris and expect anything to   
   work - bad password - as user Chris is not in the password file, and   
   /home/Chris is also not in the password file, so logging in as chris   
   will not find a home directory, and will default to /, where you can't   
   do anything remotely useful.   
      
   So log in as chris and use sudo (superuser do) to get access to the root   
   user's account, if necessary.   
      
   The answer: don't use user root unless you know what you're doing - it   
   will break something.   
      
      
   --   
   Chris Elvidge, England   
   I WILL NOT FAKE MY WAY THROUGH LIFE   
   Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 7F03   
      
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