Single User - Multi User?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Single User - Multi User?
started by: jimbo62

Posted by jimbo62 on Aug. 07 2005,21:03

I made a mistake and installed DS Linux to my hard drive as "single" user. Now when I boot, there is no log in screen, it just boots to a session for the user, dsl. The dsl user does not have root privileges and I have to sudo su from a terminal to get any serious work done.

I would much prefer to have a choice at boot time to log in as user, dsl or as user, root.

Can someone help me change the boot process to multi user?

Thanks, jimbo

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 08 2005,01:49

I think you can switch /etc/inittab with /etc/inittab.multi
If you haven't set up paswords you'll probably need to do that before restarting.

If you're automatically being logged in as dsl, like with a liveCD, there may additional work to do.
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